Word: utopianizing
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...purges. Some of the radicals' rhetoric is likely to be retained indefinitely, partly to avoid the appearance of an abrupt departure from policies once sanctioned by Mao, but also to satisfy the Central Committee members who retain some sympathy for the radicals' views. Still, the more Utopian of the leftist policies will probably be quietly dropped in favor of greater pragmatism. This will presumably mean financial incentives in industry, mechanization in agriculture, an emphasis on technical knowledge rather than "Redness" and an attempt to strengthen the armed forces with more technologically sophisticated weapons-all moves the radicals have...
...officials conducted hearings last spring, then issued three recommendations: tax laws should be stiffened, police should be given more money and enforcement powers, and cigarette taxes should be slashed by as much as lOc a pack to reduce the smugglers' incentive. The last proposal is probably Utopian. Cutting taxes might well reduce the buttleg traffic, but it would also cost the state an estimated $33 million a year in lost revenue-assuming, of course, that the buttleggers do not take over all the business...
...beat-the frank clang of cash registers, of buildings going up, of dirt roads being paved, of high school and college bands exhorting their black and white football stars to victory, of new leaders with old courtesies, of expectations that no longer seem visionary or Utopian...
There is something undeniably stodgy and programmatic about his abstractions from the late '20s and '30s; they suffer from the earnestly Utopian look of most geometrical abstract painting in France between the wars. Many of them are scarcely better than sophisticated Art Decoornament. From then on his wife became the stronger half of the creative partnership. But his precocious early work remains extraordinary, even six decades later: an embodiment in paint of Paris' traditional nickname, La Ville Lumiere...
...Masters and Johnson laboratory ("I'm Sorry, Dear") or more wittily staged the gauche bedroom farce of the puritan turned hedonist ("My Wife, the Naked Movie Star"). But Farber is not content to do one more clever number on middleclass, middle-aged America sweating and puffing toward its Utopian orgasm. What sets him apart is an uncynical pity for the angelic apes squirming at the chain's end of lust, even as they proclaim their liberation. Patiently, with a certain relentless compassion, he demonstrates that one can will to eat but not to be hungry, to lust...