Their role, in his view, is a strictly interpretive one: they are there to realize the vision of the playwright.
Quite often people can easily imagine living somewhere else — but they don't actually have the desire to realize the vision of going somewhere else.
It's risky for de Blasio's tenure to symbolize so much when his power to realize the vision is so limited.
Along with their partner, Jules Fisher, the men were brought in by the Municipal Arts Council of New York to realize the vision of several artists and architects who proposed the design.
In a statement on Saturday, President Bush saluted the deal, calling it "an important step toward realizing the vision of Iraq as a democratic, pluralistic country".
"I've always felt that the job of the executive director is to work with the board and realize the vision of Oskar Eustis".
On one level the group's role in realizing the vision of an established single artist working in an established institution seems at odds with its mission.
Both writers and readers instinctively meet it with "bitter contemptuous rejection," whether out of "despair over the impossibility of realizing the vision" or out of a profoundly modern disbelief that any earthly happiness could satisfy the needs of the spirit.
Matthew Higgins, a spokesman for the development corporation, said the agency and the Port Authority planned to work together to ensure that Mr. Libeskind "will be involved in all aspects of realizing the vision" that was laid out in his design.
I've asked Secretary Powell to work intensively with Middle Eastern and international leaders to realize the vision of a Palestinian state, focusing them on a comprehensive plan to support Palestinian reform and institution building.
In a statement, the Empire State Development Corporation, the agency that would take the land on behalf of Columbia, said the ruling "confirms that the project complies with New York State law in all respects and that the acquisition of the holdout properties is essential to realizing the vision for the Manhattanville campus as it was approved by the state".
