Word: utopian
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...child) rests on Adler's conviction that specialization is the besetting sin of our time. The program aims, he says, at "enabling the young to become better human beings and better citizens, not just better at some particular line of work." The goal is bold, perhaps Utopian and typical of this tireless polymath. Adler, 79, is an encyclopedist and organizer of knowledge whose Great Books (with Hutchins) and Great Ideas volumes set out simply, and comprehensively, to make the intellectual monuments of Western civilization available to any reader...
...jingling of all that television money had a Utopian ring a couple of months ago, but there has not been a sweet sound heard around football since. To complete the N.F.L.'s funk, there is even another pro league, a spring league, mustering on the horizon. What does a football fan have to look forward to? On Aug. 29 the Los Angeles Raiders might debut in the Los Angeles Coliseum. On Sept. 12 the 1982 season might begin. On Aug. 30 Mike Strachan, the Saints Most Valuable Player of 1975, will stand trial on a cocaine-trafficking charge...
...That Utopian vision glosses over a number of subtle problems. Even if Syria appears to be the most likely haven for P.L.O. guerrillas, Arafat remains reluctant to place all of his forces under the repressive thumb of Assad's regime. For its part, the Syrian government, already trou bled by internal dissent, scarcely wants to court the risks of playing host to thousands of Palestinian guerrillas. Moreover, the Syrians, who still have at least 35,000 of their own troops in Lebanon, may simply refuse to leave because of strategic considerations: they insist upon control of the Bekaa Valley...
...religious thinkers as Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich and the Catholic clergy who advocate a quasi-Marxist "liberation theology" in Latin America. "Any serious Christian must be a socialist," Tillich once said. Yet those who are hostile to capitalism, Novak writes, tend to compare its flaws in practice with a utopian vision of socialism, ignoring the reality that socialism in practice tends to be economically incoherent and politically repressive. Democratic socialism is a doomed dream because it ignores the "necessary connection between economic liberty and political liberty." A democratic system that respects individual rights, argues Novak, "is bound to be drawn...
...rule, did basic optical research on what was to become movie film, and spent half a century intermittently listing words according to six quasi-scientific categories of meaning: abstract relations, volition, affections, and so on. But when he first published his thesaurus in 1852, his goal was partly the Utopian search for a universal language. Editor Lloyd, who once taught English in Uganda, faintly echoes that tone. "The new edition exhibits my interests," she says. "It was bound to." One result of this approach is a large supply of environmental words (recycling, renewable energy sources, greenhouse effect); another...