Word: utopian
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...Inside Man. When the plan was first announced, it was considered hopelessly Utopian-and Young was considered rather radical for even daring to suggest it. Last week, however, everybody seemed to be embracing it. Hubert Humphrey and ten House Democrats called for a "Marshall Plan" for the cities. Roy Wilkins told a Washington audience that "if we can under write the economies of Germany, France, Italy and England and see that these people recover their equilibrium, then we can underwrite the cost of re covering the equilibrium of our own native black people...
Come fall, the teeny-boppers will go back to high school, the San Franciscans will return to Haight-Ashbury, the Diggers will entrench themselves in utopian flats, and the hippie boulevardiers who remain will adjourn to the Bick...
...secretary is trying to make him seem less ruthless. Thus it is never easy to tell exactly what p.r. practitioners do. One of their most important functions is the least publicized; it lies not in interpreting the client to the world, but the world to the client. A recent Utopian short story in the Atlantic envisioned a community supervised not by censors but "sensors"-men who sense what the public is thinking. The best p.r. men are sensors...
There are serious problems, furthermore, with the system of decision making which SDS would urge both classes to substitute for the present one. Participatory democracy, critics argue, is a vague and utopian notion that could never provide a workable system of government for society on a mass scale. In reply, SDSers allude to control by workers in cooperative factories, and to town meetings. But aside from the question of practicability, the notion has serious weaknesses even in theory. For it appears to depend on an underlying consensus in values and interests that runs directly against the pluralism and freedom which...
When Moses Cleaveland carved out a settlement at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in 1796, it seemed a promised land. Since then, the Ohio city he laid out has dropped an a from its founder's name and most of his Utopian hopes. Last summer's flaming riots in the city's rat-infested ghetto of Hough proved that Cleveland's Negro neighborhoods are as volatile as Watts or Harlem. Scared citizens have taken to muttering about "Communist influence." Yet the Negro community's real problem is as close as the house next door...