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...gasp, isn't segregation bad? Isn't that what that whole ruckus in the 1960s was about--ending segregation? What about that Brown vs. Board of Education thingy? If we go back to the segregation of unrandomized housing, aren't we taking a step backward...
...indeed, it is in this distortion, to the extent that Harvard has taken our choice away from us, that we have stepped backward...
...Looking Backward not only popularized long-standing socialist ideas but also strongly influenced their further development and appeal. The Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs publicly thanked Bellamy for guiding him "out of darkness into light..." and for "fill[ing] a despairing world with hope." Not everybody shared that particular hope. Like most Utopias, Bellamy's not only was naive but also seemed to leave little room for individual freedom...
...years after the publication of Looking Backward, there appeared a very different view of A.D. 2000. It was a sort of capitalist rebuttal, although by definition the free-market philosophy does not easily lend itself to Utopianism, with its regimented bliss. In A Journey to Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor, Socialism has hopelessly ruined Europe, while the U.S., having absorbed Canada, Mexico and most of Central and South America, virtually rules the world together with its ally, Great Britain. A great-grandson of the dynasty's founder, Astor was a playboy with a serious side. Fascinated by science...
Bronfman may have created some problems by hiring his top executive team backward. When talks with Ovitz fell through, he hired Ovitz's partner, Meyer, as No. 2 man. Meyer installed his associate Sandy Climan and his friend Weitzman in top executive jobs. Both are now gone. And finally, with the key players already in place, Bronfman hired Frank Biondi as chairman of the company...