Word: utopianizing
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That almost feudal interest makes it natural for the University to choose a utopian scheme for the structure's rehabilitation. Tenant activists argue correctly that the project could be done for less, but it would require HRE to continue to manage the building and revenues from the resulting rents might never reach the level of those of a lease on a luxury development. What is important, though, is that the outcome would be the same: Harvard would control the land at 122 Mt. Auburn St. for some unstated future...
...University of Amsterdam to write a master's thesis attacking the Marshall Plan, Kelly moved in 1972 to Brussels and a job at European Community headquarters that taught her, she says, about women's rights and nuclear arms. That same year, lured by what she called the "utopian hope" of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Kelly joined the Social Democratic Party, only to storm out in 1979 convinced that Brandt's successor, Helmut Schmidt, had betrayed the party's beliefs. Thereafter she joined the Greens, instantly becoming one of the party's brightest spokesmen...
...Marxist teachers who are now established in West German universities. This influence has presumably helped turn the Greens against capitalism. Adds Lowenthal: "The leftists have not taught them how I parliamentary democracy works or the importance of the legal system. They have not transmitted any of the Utopian Marxist hope. The Old Left is responsible for the gaps in the Greens' education...
...effort at economic restructuring. But the way to achieve that goal in the face of hard times and continued corporate power is to prepare a comprehensive, feasible strategy for the hard political bargaining ahead. The necessity of compromise often seems hard to swallow at first, but--unlike sweeping utopian schemes that fail--it leaves you with something to build...
...Industrial Revolution: the centralization and standardization of work in the factory, the office, the assembly line. These changes may seem eternal, but they are less than two centuries old. Instead, Toffler imagines a revived version of pre-industrial life in what he has named "the electronic cottage," a Utopian abode where all members of the family work, learn and enjoy their leisure around the electronic hearth, the computer. Says Vice President Louis H. Mertes of the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, who is such a computer enthusiast that he allows no paper to be seen...