Word: utopianizing
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Like most rational suggestions, Broder's may seem hopelessly Utopian. Who will take the first step toward disarmament? What reporter will be the first to stop pressing the Ford children for snappy quotes? All Broder asks is that Ford and his family not be constantly badgered into making copy. And surely a means can be found to create manageable press conferences without barring smaller news organizations from the White House forever. Such thinking deserves more than helpless shrugs. As Broder says: "Journalism, which helped topple the last two Presidents, owes this one a reasonable chance to keep...
...true believer who cannot forgive the world, and perhaps himself, for failing to live up to his youthful ideals. As he recounted last year In The Green Stick, his first autobiographical installment, he was raised as a devout socialist in a middle-class suburb of London. Later, his Utopian faith was shattered by his experiences as a correspondent in the Raj's India and Stalin's Moscow. Now, as the war ends in The Infernal Grove, he turns away in final disenchantment from the "world's wreck," disgusted equally with the victors and the vanquished...
...goals for the council, and ideas have flowed in. As collected in a new paperback, Dare to Live: The Taizé Youth Experience (Seabury; $2.95), the ideas are eclectic and ambitious. Often they reflect local versions of radical Christianity. A Latin American, for instance, looks forward to a somewhat Utopian kind of social, economic and political liberation-a Christian "revolution" that will set the world aright. Others view Christian life as a "sign of contradiction" in a pagan civilization-to see their role as an example of selfless living in a selfish world. "The council will not give...
...many of the views that the Nobel-prizewinning writer outlined in his apocalyptic "Letter to Soviet Leaders" (TIME, March 11), which summed up his program for the future of Russia. Reflecting dismay among Soviet dissidents over Solzhenitsyn's conservative manifesto, Sakharov strongly disagrees with the writer's "utopian and potentially dangerous proposals...
Many former students claim that their exposure to Kissinger in the seminars has helped them to understand certain key elements in his approach to foreign policy: an undisguised disdain for bureaucracy, an impatience with Utopian ideas, and an ability to view power relationships unencumbered by ideology. Several former students remarked that Kissinger had no apparent heroes, and that his supposed admiration for Metternich has been considerably exaggerated. Some Asian and Middle Eastern students criticize him on the grounds that he viewed the world in European terms and understood little about the Third World...