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...work of "these chemists who pile up little dots," as Gauguin contemptuously named the pointillists, was to the 1890s what constructivism would be to the 1920s: the house style of Utopian socialism in its various forms. Pissarro was a fervent anarchist, and his dot-crusted scenes of idyllic rural labor (as stylized and unreal, in some ways, as any 18th century pastoral) are attempts, not always successful, to convey an ideal vision of social dignity based on freely shared work. In this he was the heir of Millet as well-though he certainly did not know peasant life as Millet...
Perhaps the most radical change the Law School is considering is Professor Duncan Kennedy's "Utopian proposal." Kennedy calls the Law School curriculum "a simple minded, center-liberal indoctrination in questionable eternal verities, sugar-coated as professional expertise and lawyerly knack." He has called for courses in legal philosophy, and the increased use of computers and vidco tape instead of teachers for first year courses. Teachers, he says, should be used to advise students and not to lecture them. The most controversial of Kennedy's proposals is his plan to make admissions by lottery and equalize the salaries...
...book, Djilas describes several abominable and not-so-well-known elements of Tito's regime. The concentration camps, the one-party system, the purges of the opposition, and the eradication of the democratic movements destroy any image of Yugoslavia as a utopian state. Nevertheless, Yugoslavia was certainly superior to other developing non-aligned nations of that era in civil liberties permitted...
...provides no radical response to pressing social problems. He advocates a decentralized, grass-roots reform of labor, corporations and government relationships. Muller outlines a program of cooperation between these economic actors that would eradicate the misallocation of resources, stemming from interest group haggling. His idea is intriguing, if utopian, but it still fails to address the issue of those who are represented neither by corporation, bureaucracy or union. Muller's array of strategic planning and targeting might possibly succeed in reversing declining productivity rates and other inflationary trends. But measures based on the corporate sector, as most...
...Democrats usually pride themselves on being the party of vision while denouncing the Republicans for their lack of imagination. In a curious reversal, Carter compared the Democrats' earthy realism to the Republicans' Utopian dreams of a world of "good guys and bad guys, where some politicians shoot first and ask questions later." This was a forecast, no doubt, of the kind of attack that will be launched against Reagan during the campaign. Reagan, said Carter, suggested blockading Cuba after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, while opposing the President's grain embargo. Scoffed Carter: "He doesn't seem...