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Around 1920 the quest for an ultimate style that would correspond to social revolution and human self-improvement was one of the great issues of avant-garde art, the hope of the constructivist Internationale. And it became so for two main reasons: the growth of Utopian collectivist thought (mainly, but not only, Marxist) and the recoil from the horrors of World War I. "The period of destruction is totally finished," announced a De Stijl maniesto in 1923. "A new period begins: that of construction." It is a younger version of he sentiment hauntingly expressed in Dryden's Secular Masque...
...view that the U.S. should abandon its current policy in El Salvador in favor of recommending negotiations between all interested parties, a position favored by the U.S. hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church (see box). At week's end, Duarte finally dismissed Lopez Portillo's suggestion as "utopian...
...Christmas cards we put on our mantels and tuck in our Venetian blinds are not just greetings from relatives, friends, would-be friends and dry cleaners. They are mirrors of American culture-the neighborly and the utopian, the tacky and the cutesie, the schmaltzy and the smutty, the corny and the phony, the humorous and the sentimental. Lately there are also some fresh and appealing designs, as well as good...
...apartheid. The West could encourage such reform. Gradually and peacefully implementing Black rule is far more sensible. It could negotiate with Pretoria to provide economic support in return for South African adoption of a restricted franchise based on educational criteria--with free education available to all. In this scenario--utopian as it may be--more and more Blacks would gradually gain voting rights; eventually, they would take over the reins of government...
Under rigidly applied collectivism, the country's peasants were relentlessly encouraged to follow such Utopian precepts as "Love the commune as you would love your own home." In these more realistic times, Chinese agricultural officials confess that such precepts were unworkable. "The speed of development in the past was not very fast," admits Peking Ministry of Agriculture Official Liu Xu-mao. It seems to have accelerated now that China's peasants no longer must eat out of one big communal...