Word: utopian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effort at economic restructuring. But the way to achieve that goal in the face of hard times and continued corporate power is to prepare a comprehensive, feasible strategy for the hard political bargaining ahead. The necessity of compromise often seems hard to swallow at first, but--unlike sweeping utopian schemes that fail--it leaves you with something to build...
...Industrial Revolution: the centralization and standardization of work in the factory, the office, the assembly line. These changes may seem eternal, but they are less than two centuries old. Instead, Toffler imagines a revived version of pre-industrial life in what he has named "the electronic cottage," a Utopian abode where all members of the family work, learn and enjoy their leisure around the electronic hearth, the computer. Says Vice President Louis H. Mertes of the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, who is such a computer enthusiast that he allows no paper to be seen...
...Roman Catholic Church, when there was a turn away from Catholic intellectual traditions in philosophy and theology in favor of a greater devotional reliance on scripture. Says he: "The passages they quote and the visions they take represent a soft and romantic reading of Christian theology, a Utopian view. I think it is an outrage to identify this sentimentality with faith in Jesus Christ. I don't think Jesus promises us that we are going to live in political peace. The Bible gives a much harder vision of reality. True Christianity is a religion made for hard times...
While Disney's successors have clung to the founder's ugly acronym (Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), they have departed from his Utopian concept of a real-life community evolving in harmony with an ever changing and beneficent technology. What they have wrought is not the town but the adult toy of the future. Epcot is a mind-pummeling assault of electronic ingenuity, historical fact, fancy, showmanship, faith, hope...
...expertise that in 1976 KGB men raided his apartment and confiscated an early manuscript version of the book. He was obliged to leave the Soviet Union and now lives in Virginia. No angry, polemicizing emigre, he is saddened by the debasement of a nation that was once built on Utopian principles, albeit by terror and violence. "Year after year since childhood," he writes, "I watched as corruption ate more deeply into society until it turned the Soviet regime in the '60s and '70s into a land of corrupt rulers, ruling over a corrupted people...