Word: utopianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even professional skeptics have been converted. "When I was younger, I believed that 100% of sex differences were due to the environment," says Jerre Levy, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. Her own toddler toppled that utopian notion. "My daughter was 15 months old, and I had just dressed her in her teeny little nightie. Some guests arrived, and she came into the room, knowing full well that she looked adorable. She came in with this saucy little walk, cocking her head, blinking her eyes, especially at the men. You never saw such flirtation in your life." After...
Herzl also wrote a book called Altneuland, envisioning a utopian Zionist society--in which Jews and Arabs live as friends, side by side. I asked Tarek where Herzl wrote that non-Jews needed to be removed, but Tarek declined to say. "He did say it," Tarek insisted. "Go study more...
Faced by such unlikelihoods, one begins to see that California is still, in a sense, what America used to be: a spiritual refuge, a utopian experiment, a place plastic enough, in every sense, to shape itself to every group of newcomers. It is a state set in the future tense (and the optative mood), a place in a perpetual state of becoming. Of course it's strange: it is precisely the shape of things to come, as unexpected as tomorrow. Of course it's unsettled: it's making itself up as it goes along...
...difficult to dramatize -- and nuclear arms-control proposals tend to be either complex or unrealistic. Bush's initiatives could have come earlier, could have been bolder, could have been more comprehensive, could have been less angled toward preserving American advantages. But they could not have been much less Utopian. BAN THE BOMB is simple, easily grasped and easily chanted. Largely for those reasons the slogan is also no guide for policy. BAN LAND-BASED MIRVs is an obscure tongue twister. But it states an important, achievable aim, and it is as worthy an objective as it is a clunker...
...HAVE NEVER been closer to living in a world in which people are eager to form open societies in which they share, discuss and tolerate each other. Using U.S. financial leverage to advance that nolonger utopian cause is neither deceptive nor anti-Semitic. Bush deserves credit, and not criticism, for conveying passion for a cause in which he believes...