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...amusing.) In the case of Time, because the popular press is always in need of some new villain to destroy, some new hero to create, something to put on the cover. Unfortunately, Beyond Freedom and Dignity is neither a heinous model for a 1984 super-state, nor a viable blueprint for Utopia. It is, however, an interesting book...
Moreover, Washington has no blueprint for specific points of settlement. It believes that any solution must be worked out by the Pakistanis and the rebels, and that if mediation is necessary, it should come from a neutral entity like the U.N. Nor does the Administration have any intention of getting militarily embroiled, even though Pakistan has bilateral and multilateral (SEATO and CENTO) alliances with the U.S. The defense treaties, officials emphasized, are directed only against Communist aggression...
...think that he has ended Viet Nam as an issue. Have we fulfilled our responsibilities if the violence continues? On the economy, all we have is a blueprint of a plan?Phase II. There are many pieces still to be filled in. Nixon has put the economy through the wringer. Things were bad in 1969, they grew worse in 1970, and now in 1971 we have the freeze and Phase II. I hope it works; I think it may. But no amount of rhetoric can mask the fact that the Administration should have acted long...
...Unfortunately many people like Theologian Rubenstein will respond in much the same manner as Galileo's contemporaries. If Rubenstein calls Professor Skinner's Utopian projection the blueprint for the theory and practice of hell, what does he consider war, poverty, racism, overpopulation and pollution to be? Heaven possibly...
That may be an accurate description of society's dilemma, but Skinner's solution seems equally frightening. To Theologian Rubenstein, Beyond Freedom and Dignity is an important but "terrifying" book. Skinner's "utopian projection," he says, "is less likely to be a blueprint for the Golden Age than for the theory and practice of hell...