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...federal relief become a principal weapon against poverty. The force that most fundamentally changed the nature of poverty was the machine. In the short run, the industrial revolution only caused bigger and worse poverty by creating a new pauperized proletariat; in the long run, it lent reality to the Utopian dream of universal abundance by almost infinitely multiplying the once strictly limited productive capacity of human hands and brains. In the U.S. and in most of the contemporary West, the fruits of the industrial revolution brought about a momentous change: the poor turned from a majority into a minority...
...treat only two of these notions, and at that the two have been most throughly discussed already, Granted, some whites join the struggle because they see the Negro as the Oppressed One (the "guilt-ridden white" in Zigmond's terms) or as an agent of massive social change (the "utopian white"). This however hardly exhausts the possibilities. Some seek an escape from the boredom of affluence, or the puritanism of the middle middle class, or the rootlessness of suburbia, etc. For Zigmond's detached approach to yield significant observations, it must proceed further than he takes it; it must attempt...
President Johnson acknowledged that "there are those who say the rule of law is a fruitless and Utopian dream. It is true that, if it comes, it will come slowly. But to deny the possibility is to deny peace itself." He still held hope that "we can strengthen the U.N.-not simply as a forum for debate, but as an arena for the solution of disputes." The opposite point of view was taken by Duke University's Arthur Larson, who felt that devastating blows had been dealt the rule of law not only by the India-Pakistan...
...Your cover story graphically points out that the U.S., a democratic society, has a Utopian, paternalistic, benevolent dictator. Your article should have ended: "The people consider him a remarkably effective Dad, the Commander in Chief of his family, to whom his children can't say no without a verbal or physical spanking or without Daddy's sulking...
...would be best suited to run such an organization, and she put the question to just the right man: Playwright George Bernard Shaw, who himself had exhibited a fatherly concern for the girls in Mrs. Warren's Profession. Well, mused Shaw in his reply, "the project seems pretty Utopian." For one thing, he wrote, the people engaged in the trade "are the loudest detractors of it," while its "protectors" are "of extraordinarily good character." But perhaps the union job "could be done by a very energetic, muscular and violent woman, with the devotion of a saint and the arbitrariness...