Word: inners
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...whole world one. One what? Vegetable? Well, vegetables are much on the minds of Utopians these days. Many of them have rejected meat and its association with the hunt and the kill. Everything that is disagreeable is permanently banned from today's Utopia. If you follow your inner light, you cannot possibly go astray...
...that is necessary to describe the new society is to describe a new way of life," writes Charles Reich at his most euphoric. But while he is contentedly describing Utopia for the benefit of his enchanted listeners, others may be acting quite contrary to such instructions. The weakness of inner Utopia is that it surrenders control of outer events. In the end, it may prove to be guilty of the most discussed sin of modern times. It may be irrelevant...
...Utopia without a respect for the richness of individuality is not worth having-the chief lesson, perhaps, of the 20th century. It is out of revulsion against the omnipotence of the technological state that the inner Utopians have rebelled. In doing so, they have created a monster of the spirit just as surely as earlier Utopians built a prison for the body. Utopia is not meant to be lived in. At its best, it is a model for the exemplary life, not a guide to reality. As he brought his majestic Republic to a close, Plato acknowledged that...
Near Miss. Looking for a better solution, Singer recalled an old suggestion by Nobel Laureate Harold Urey, who argued that in the early days of the solar system the inner planets were accompanied in orbit around the sun by many moonlike bodies. Because only one of these ancient "moons" remains (the earth's), it seems quite likely that most of the others eventually collided with the planets. Singer dismisses the possibility that a direct hit by a moon could have reversed Venus' spin; the moon would have been much too small. But his calculations indicate that a near...
Prompted by a torrent of complaints from victimized buyers, Banking Committee staff members investigated Section 235 homes in ten cities. "It is common practice in the inner city," said the report, "to pick up houses for minimal amounts, perform a so-called 'paste-up' or 'cosmetic' rehabilitation which, in many cases, amounts to a few hundred dollars, and then resell the property under Section 235 for a profit of thousands of dollars." Buyers are willing to pay outrageous prices partly because of the exceptionally easy terms made possible by the subsidies. In Paterson, N.J., for example...