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...doubt whether people truly want useful things, as defined by Papanek; they argue that the desire for embellishment in the design of cars or clocks, and even the demand for $1 diapers for parakeets, is just as real as the need for 90 radios. Finally, the critics denounce as Utopian Papanek's theory that better products can improve men's lives and outlook; only a fundamental change of philosophy can do that. Still, Papanek raises enough questions about the value-and values-of designers to be thoroughly provocative...
Unemployment is entering its second year of hovering around 6%. The figure is so sticky that the Council of Economic Advisers, in its report out last week, talks of the traditional 4%-unemployment goal as if it were Utopian. Treasury Secretary John Connally has said that 5% "is probably the best we can do this year without further throwing the economy out of kilter." At present, 5,000,000 Americans are officially listed as without jobs, the largest epidemic of idleness since the early '60s. Another 770,000 are unemployed but not counted in the 6% rate because they...
...tendency toward gentle skepticism in religious matters. Yet insofar as the ancient Jews did develop a higher conception of morality in their monotheistic beliefs, it seems for the Israelis to constitute a type of historic betrayal to abandon the unique role which the Jews once played. Indeed the Utopian vision of the Prophets which clearly saw the day "when nation shall not lift up sword against nation..." was an important corollary to the Messianic expectation of Return to the Promised Land, a return fulfilled only by the Zionists in this century. As Utopian socialists and Communists, they of course rejected...
Noting these deficiencies, the secretary of Britain's National Association for Mental Health has warned that the plan to close the mental hospitals may be Utopian. Said Mrs. Mary Applebey: "It is wishy-washy, platitudinous and dangerously superficial...
...Mayor Kollek is considering the idea of a five-borough system for the city, under which the Arabs would gain more autonomy. Such a system could be developed to accommodate two governments in Jerusalem without resorting to new walls or barbed wire. If an Arab Palestine were created-a Utopian proposal that most Israelis reject as implausible-territorial control of monuments sacred to Islam should then pass to the new nation...