All of us, he thought, have a workaday imagination, which we use to recall memories, make plans, and solve problems; he called this practical imagination "fancy".
But there's a more modest form of imagination that's within the reach of more directors: a practical imagination that, within familiar modes of storytelling, considers characters with a quasi-documentary, journalistic curiosity and empathy.
A catastrophic reduction in the flow of the Colorado River — which mostly consists of snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains — has always served as a kind of thought experiment for water engineers, a risk situation from the outer edge of their practical imaginations.
To have managed to create a good life here has been the result of a tremendous imagination and great practical resourcefulness.
Thus, he sees a genuine distinction between the speculative intellect, the practical intellect, imagination, and the sensory apprehensive powers.
Might this add weight to Kettle's suggestion that, through Blake's vision, the realms of the practical and the imagination might come together in a "progressive organism"?
By the 1930's he was recognized as a comer, having compiled outstanding fitness reports, including an enthusiastic assessment in 1939: "Takes a definite stand, determined, holds to his convictions, sure of himself.... Original independent thinker, produces practical ideas, active imagination".
In some way, he concludes, practical reason and imagination have indispensable roles to play as well.
And four are on declarer play: "Dynamic Declarer Play, Parts I and II," "Imagination" and "Practical Aspects of Declarer Play".
Capricorns are reputed to be independent, if not aloof; steady, if not plodding; cautious, if not a bit paranoid; fiercely ambitious, if not power-hungry; with a wry sense of humor, though somewhat short on imagination; and practical managers.
He leaned forward when we were talking about getting out the vote, and asked, 'You mean you actually go door to door?' All the practical aspects caught his imagination".
