Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excessive, as the smell of honeysuckle can be excessive." He describes Gene McCarthy's followers: "Their common denominator seemed to be in some blank area of the soul, a species of disinfected idealism which gave one the impression among them of living in a lobotomized ward of Upper Utopia...
...federal and provincial governments. Promising to "plug the people into the decision-making process," Trudeau has urged all Canadians to join in the coming constitutional debate, challenging them "to embark wholeheartedly on a journey whose destination is uncertain. Our country deserves more than a blind rush to some imagined Utopia, or a blind faith in the prejudices of the past...
Whyte is a realist. Accepting neither a vision of the future characterized by junky, chaotic growth nor a clean, green Utopia, he calmly predicts a much more likely middle course of high-density living, where the land is used more intensively and ingeniously than at present. He has no patience with grandiose answers. Year 2000 plans? "They vault over the messy present and near future" and justify themselves with unreliable statistical projections of past trends. As for self-contained "new towns," they start with the assumption that old cities are a lost cause-despite the fact that people continue...
...society could thrive. This belief lingers, and it is not confined to assertive patriots. Consciously or unconsciously, it is shared by the country's harshest critics, including the New Left, whose very anger is based partly on the assumption that the U.S. should be near-perfect, a working Utopia...
Nevertheless all this belief in a machine-age utopia is predicated on the existence of the proper relationships between people. A long jolting brilliant piece called "Dialectics of Liberation" explores the meaning of such transcendent consciousness and its possibility...