Word: utopianizing
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...Marxism. After a century of foreign humiliation and social iniquity, China in 1949 grabbed at Marxism as a panacea for national renewal. The medicine worked as a purgative but failed as a restorative. It is restoration that China now needs more than anything. After three decades of coercive utopian experimentation, a return to ethics, for three millenniums the unifying theme of Chinese culture, may help. Optimists will be warmed by an event planned for next May: the formation, after years of contempt for the past, of the Peking Academy for the Study of Confucianism and the Chinese Classics...
...Star Wars threatens to upset deterrence and arms control alike. In his landmark speech unveiling his Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I.) in March 1983, Reagan said that his goal was to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." The Soviets read this not as a utopian dream but as an ominous threat: it was clearly their nuclear arsenal that Reagan most wanted to consign to the ash heap of history. The effect, as they saw it, would be to neutralize Soviet retaliatory forces and thereby make the U.S.S.R. a tempting target for a first strike...
...there a real and permanent change in American attitudes? Perhaps. Many Americans have been left out of the economic recovery; on the other hand, it would be utopian, or typically American, to think that all could be included. The measure that Yankelovich trusts is the poll on confidence in American institutions. At the time of John Kennedy's assassination, about two-thirds of those polled said they trusted that Government was run for the benefit of all the people. But as the nation lurched through the Viet Nam years, through Watergate and double-digit interest rates and inflation...
...Greek Prime Minister agreed to go along with the Community in negotiating the agreements with Spain, but reserved his right to veto the entry of the applicants. The demands, which were labeled "Utopian" by Kohl, seemed to leave most of the other leaders more annoyed than concerned. The reason: Greece already receives $750 million a year more from the E.C. than it pays in. If Spanish membership is blocked, West Germany will refuse to raise its revenue contributions to the Community, and there will be no money at all for Mediterranean support programs. Declared Kohl: "Anyone who blocks the entry...
...which Meier's signature porcelain panels and white pipe railings are used with remarkable consistency and yet unflagging invention. Among the others: the Smith House in Darien, Conn. (1967); The Bronx Developmental Center for the mentally retarded (1976); and the Atheneum, a visitors' center at the restored Utopian community of New Harmony, Ind. (1979). Meier has also designed museums that are under construction in Frankfurt, West Germany, and Des Moines. In recognition of his body of work, Meier was awarded the 1984 Pritzker Prize last April. The honor, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel, confirms his place...