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...this is utopian dreaming. If we were to leave off argument and think kindly for a moment, on the premise that men and women will go on mixing with one another in the current mindless and anarchic way, we might spin the thought that good can come of each sex thinking the best of the other, and might see the converse truth: that only bad can come of each one thinking the worst. Tolerance and decency are creative, civilizing traits. A rising standard of expectation -- a mutual hope, a sympathetic mingling of desires -- will lift all boats. Quite a long...
...result, the human figure, which for thousands of years was the container and vehicle of art's most exalted as well as its coarsest intentions, languishes in late-modern American painting like a vestigial sign, atrophied. This is not because abstract art attained its Utopian ends of making representation obsolete -- we all know it didn't -- but because the culture forgot that there was anything to do with bodies and faces except photograph them. It's as though America, maddened and warped by its own erotomania, its obsession with and fear of the flesh, and further blocked by its newly...
...most extreme objections to Dor Yeshorim focus on the perils of modern science. Dr. Francis S. Collins of the National Institutes of Health summarized Dor Yeshorim in the Times as "a miniature but significant version of Big Brother," referring to George Orwell's dis-utopian novel...
...HEYDAY, THE VAST EKO STAHL steelworks was the life-force of Eisenhuttenstadt, a utopian socialist city of 50,000 southeast of Berlin and the pride of the German Democratic Republic. Today the complex of six factories is a hulk dominated by a single operating blast furnace. It glows over an industrial wasteland near the Polish border where thousands have lost their jobs. Since unification, Eko Stahl has cut 85% of its eastern German work force as it closed or restructured its inefficient and overstaffed - plants. The number at Eisenhuttenstadt has shrunk from 12,000 to 3,500, and the remaining...
...refer to my utopian vision of a revolutionary reshaping of society...