Word: utopians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eliot. In trying to convey and assess Bucky, Hugh Kenner, a literary man who has written books on Joyce, Beckett and Pound, solves the Fuller packaging problem brilliantly. Instead of boxes, he spins a sort of geodesic Glad Bag in which Fuller's life, work and Utopian ideals are clearly and excitingly displayed, even as they are kept fresh from the souring realities of the world...
...work. One gets the firm impression that the authors of this study believe that to have unfulfilled aspirations, to daydream, to engage in wishful thinking, or to express regret for lost opportunities (real or imaginary) is less than human. It also apparently never occurs to them that it is Utopian to expect ordinary working people to be as content as the most successful surgeon or lawyer. Why should they be? How could they be? Where and when have they ever been...
...founder of Israel's first kibbutz, or communal settlement, Shmuel Dayan* was often in an exultant mood. His enthusiasm reflected the spirit of other Utopian experiments-virtually all of which failed. Now, in Israel's 25th year, the conditions that sustained the kibbutz in its early days have changed, and some Israelis are questioning whether their experiment can last...
...absolute egalitarian. Any society has to have rewards and punishments for appropriate behaviors so that's almost bound to produce inequality because some people will behave in ways in which society values and thus reap rewards. The usual utopian method is to use sanctions, some type of pressure to induce appropriate behavior. I find the use of economic sanction much more attractive. If everyone received the same hourly wage, and the only source of "Inequality was how hard you worked, then I wouldn't feel a bit bad about that. But I take John Rawls's (professor of Philosophy), position...
...gains, such as profits on the sale of stock or real estate, at the same rate as wage or salary income. Otherwise, it was as notable for what was left out as for what was included. Gone was the plan to give every American $1,000 a year-a Utopian idea that had been designed to reduce poverty at the possible price of increased taxes on every family making more than $12,000 a year. Gone also was the proposal to tax incomes above $50,000 at 75% of the statutory rate on all kinds of income, regardless...