Word: utopianizing
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...stress the importance of considering both sides of political issues, which are rarely so obvious and easily explained as Mr. Hirschorn suggests. It is dangerous to blindly loathe one's opponents, as do many Mondale supporters in this election. Harvard students, Mr. Hirschorn, should not be so blinded by utopian idealism that they ignore reality and pragmatism. An intelligent voter should consider the validity of each party's position and make his decision on informed logic, not just noble sentiment. Stephen L. Ascher...
...that doesn't mean that such utopian protest is futile. The skepticism with which we approach a vote to stock cyanide pills (which the university will not honor, by the way) is part scorn for foolishness, but it is also, I think, the unfortunate result of a belief that such protests achieve nothing. Hardened by the failed excesses of the sixties, our generation shies away from such displays, claiming they are naive, lambasting what we see as token and counterproductive grabs for media attention. But we should remember that nearly twenty-five years ago, when four young black students simply...
SUCH A SCHEME is utopian at best and liberal reformism at its worst. Divestment misses the point. What will happen when these cumulative divestments do (in a hypothetical world) take place? Will the money invested in South Africa go into companies that oppress workers in Chile of the Dominican Republic or here at home...
...itself but the concept of national sovereignty. He called on the superpowers to eliminate nuclear weapons and to "reinvent politics" by creating a world government loosely based on the pacifist ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. His message was ultimately defeatist: unless the world took his vaguely defined and wildly Utopian advice, it was doomed...
...letter attempts to discredit Harvard Faculty through invective and innuendo ("...force students to regurgitate knee-jerk radicalism"), and meaningless Double-speak ("Harvard...must also be made a home of open discussion instead of an oasis of utopian radicalism) without providing substantive evidence in support of the allegations...