Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social program is hopelessly utopian--as utopian as similar plans put forth by Leftist anarchists and Rightist libertarians--and could not be achieved. In America, revolutionary opposition to capitalism often takes on a largely reactionary content, a desire to return to a simpler past rather than advance into an uncertain future. So, capitalism progresses while oppositions to it sporadically break out--but these oppositions posit a chance for return to a dream and a world which is lost...
...will stubbornly live on unimpeded in the face of social reality, in which case the existing system will somehow maintain itself; or the dream will recognize its fulfillment in the potential of the present, which will lead to a mass workers' movement. Which possibility will be acted on is uncertain: it is only sure that Levison is entirely right when he implies it is alone the working class's decision to make...
...effect the GSA action will have on court proceedings to release drafts of the impact statement developed by C.E. Maguire Inc., the GSA's consulting firm for the project, is uncertain...
...breakdown. Unequipped to deal with either possibility, he has one stopgap measure: he wants to join up with a clan of swingers and swappers. Betty, usually a glutton for punishment, draws the line. The last scene shows her taking one of the two family cars and heading for an uncertain dawn. That she picks the station wagon with the fake wood paneling on the side to drive off in does not bode well for the future...
...mists of a decade of White House conspiracy are rolled back, there is a better view of Lyndon Johnson. The new trails of CIA and FBI domestic spying, however uncertain as yet, lead back to his Oval Office and that towering figure of contradictions. Those ravaged patrons of Richard Nixon are quick to suggest that L.B.J. was as bad as or worse than the disgraced 37th President. But that has not yet been proved...