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...crisis was aggravated by 20th century history. In public life, totalitarianism has corrupted language by its tendency, as Steiner puts it, to "unspeak the actual past" while conjugating its verbs only in the "depersonalized present" and "Utopian future." In private life, Steiner claims, people have come to speak more and say less. He cites studies of urban phone calls that indicate "a drastic diminution and standardization of vocabulary and syntax." He observes that "quiet is becoming the prerogative of a sheltered elite or the cage of the desolate...
Marcuse says that the goal of the revolution must be liberation. The movement must be utopian; it must seek to make new men and women, who no longer look at the world the way that men and women have looked at the world before. Why was Mayday the first national revolutionary mass action? Why was it, despite all of these questions, an overwhelming triumph...
Illich acknowledges that his Utopian "bridges to nowhere" are "meant to serve a society which does not now exist." Still, some harbingers of deschooling have already appeared. By absorbing children's attention, TV has broken the schools' monopoly on teaching. So have industrial training courses, private computer schools and burgeoning apprenticeship programs for high school students. Peer matching is now performed by a company that arranges telephone "conference calls" among people with similar interests (TIME, Jan. 11). A recent Supreme Court decision (Griggs v. Duke Power Co.) banned exclusionary aptitude tests for men who wanted to advance within...
Marcuse says that the goal of the revolution must be liberation. The movement must be utopian; it must seek to make new men and women, who no longer look at the world the way that men and women have looked at the world before. Why was Mayday the first national revolutionary mass action? Why was it, despite all of these questions, an overwhelming triumph...
...jobs, the closing of eight city hospitals, not admitting a freshman class next fall at the City University of New York, and eliminating almost all city-sponsored cultural and recreational services. From there the mayor's options become increasingly more palatable until Option 4, a Utopian dream that has the state restoring all budget cuts, increasing aid in an amount proportionate to the $400 million increase the city received last year, and allowing the city a full new tax package...