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...problems which Weinberg's cabal was called in to solve affect every aspect of New York's present crisis. For a really adequate system of public transportation is the only alternative to increased private traffic on the city's streets. And, as Paul Goodman in a recent book of Utopian Proposals suggested, any final solution of the transportation problem must strictly limit--if not eliminate--the use of private automobiles, at least during certain hours...
...future, "The basic question before us is whether we can move fast enough to build such a (world) community, before we 'cease to exist'. . . . To say that this is utopian or idealistic after the abysmal tragedies of the two world wars, and after a thermonuclear arms race is well along is to invite the oblivion which now hovers over...
...past the practice of many non-credit tutors has been to lump individual tutees together in groups and to teach them simultaneously. Since it is evident that the best tutors have been cultivating Dean's List tutees, the lot of the crowded remaining students is scarcely utopian...
Just as the ideal university would teach all there is to know about men and their ways, so an ideal university would provide instruction in all the human tongues. This is clearly utopian, beyond the reach of Departmental budgets, and some standards of selection must determine what languages Harvard should teach...
...governments, the Alliance must align itself with Duvalier's intentions, which, as he says, do not include industrial development, and more than half the country is idle more than half the year. The Cuban experience has already begun to prove that immediate industrial development in the Caribbean is neither utopian nor impossible when a major power fully commits itself to the effort...