Word: utopianizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Futurological Congress is savagely anti-utopian. Lem dreams up a future world in which the only sophisticated technology belongs to the pharmaceutical industry. Where Memoirs Found in a Bathtub enthralls the reader in the narrator's desperately futile search for a purpose, The Futurological Congress sweeps along on Lem's wild imagination. The people live in squalor while they unknowingly take hallucinogens that make them believe they live in the best-of-all-possible-worlds people once believed science would someday provide. The Cyberiad, a collection of short stories, likewise offers tales of how science, once thought so omnipotent, gets...
...reported that the long-stalled talks with the Soviet Union on a second-stage agreement on limiting strategic arms arsenals will probably resume in March. Carter also reiterated a hope that he had expressed in his campaign that all nuclear weapons might eventually be eliminated. The notion was clearly utopian, but, for better or worse, it may set a new tone in nuclear debates...
Like Lorincz, a member of the Agudat Israel Party, most Israelis are appalled and ashamed by the recent epidemic of white-collar corruption in the Jewish state. A few cynically shrug it off as the predictable result of Israel's gradual shift away from the zealous Utopian socialism of its founders. No one, however, is ignoring the crimes and the accusations of crimes, which range from bribes of refrigerators and TV sets slipped to government workers to the outright theft of millions of dollars. Psychiatrist Hillel Klein argues that the shock of the scandals is particularly hard...
...group's failure is probably predictable from the opening shots of the film, when the camera pans a statue of Rousseau--himself a utopian dreamer and a resident of Geneva--and an omniscient voice quotes him to the effect that man is always enchained in his social institutions. And at the end, as Mathieu returns to his factory, the camera returns to the philosopher's statue, suggesting that little has changed, that these idealists will never put their dreams into effect. Only their hope for a future world will sustain them. And a shot of Jonah in 1980, a small...
...Harvard, MIT, Boston University and Wellesley with a circulation of 5000. It was established in 1969 in reaction to the appearance of a leftist student newspaper that has since folded. The paper's philosophic bent, after a wishy-washy period when the staff members ranged from Republicans to utopian socialists, has focused on objectivism. This offshoot of libertarianism calls for a society where a person's rights to do whatever he pleases are limited only when he exerts or threatens force against another person...