Word: utopian
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...many, both scientists and ethicists, who find it considerably harder to justify "positive" genetic engineering, restructuring the genes to make the "perfect" man. The prospect suggests apocalyptic possibilities: M.I.T. Biologist Salvador Luria approaches it "with tremendous fear of its potential dangers." Biologist Joshua Lederberg of Stanford University disowns such Utopian aims as a proper goal for serious biology, and even doubts that techniques sophisticated enough to achieve them could be perfected in the near future. But the possibility nonetheless tantalizes: Who would decide what qualities to preserve, and by what standards? Even remedial genetic engineering could pose a distressing problem...
...sibling rivalry with its biological parent? Would he face a severe identity crisis, being someone else's "duplicate"? Beyond such considerations, a number of scientists and ethicists would list cloning among those things that men should never do, even if they can. Says Embryologist Robert T. Francoeur, author of Utopian Motherhood: "Xeroxing of people? It shouldn't be done in the labs, even once, with humans...
...book is more than grotesque. It is extremely sad and saddening. It seems a real attempt by an old hellraiser with his battles way behind him to come to grips with students intent upon acting out utopian fantasies, rather than revel in the righteousness of the persecuted. All he produces, however, is fantastic confusion. The sex scenes seem, at times, consciously parodistic, as do the depictions of Jones' detached intelligentsia. Jones' characters laughably strive to look forevermore-exotic features of the human sexuality, and the "fuck or be fucked" psychology that goes with their struggling; while their individualistically "radical" political...
...mood of skepticism" toward educational reform has replaced the "almost utopian" optimism of educators during the early 1960's, Ed School dean Theodore R. Sizer said last week...
...Since then, Dedijer has spent much of his time abroad, where he has researched and written books, including The Road to Sarajevo, a penetrating study of the events leading up to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. No longer a formal Communist but still calling himself a "utopian Communist," Dedijer remains on friendly terms with Tito; they share the unbreakable bond of having been wounded in the same battle...