Word: utopians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Garrett concludes his essay with a revisionist thought in which we concur. The goal of our movement should not be utopian. We want to establish a just human community, not the reign of inhuman perfection. We must accept ourselves. We are far from Angola and Vietnam, and though we share many of the goals of the guerrila fighters, we cannot, by force of will, evaporate that distance in an instant. We ask of ourselves, and of our friends, a beginning; a first commitment to the ideals of socialism. That is what George Orwell made...
...unexpected blow, we remembered those amongst us whom we had considered bitter and unrealistic. They had told us of the danger, they had asked us to open our eyes to what was really happening, and to stop living in our ivory towers. But we had dismissed them as utopian, we had told them that their ideas were dangerous and we had wondered how such intelligent people could believe in those leftist notions. Now it dawned on us for the first time that maybe ours was the ivory tower and their's was the real world...
...integrationists pushing for open housing and busing. The result was a platform with more than 70 separate items, cajoled and gaveled past the delegates by Imamu Amiri Baraka, the Newark black nationalist leader and poet once known as LeRoi Jones. Among the major points on the partly sensible, largely Utopian agenda...
...Utopian. In a sense, if the feminist revolution simply wanted to exchange one ruling class for another, if it aimed at outright female domination (a situation that has occurred in science fiction and other fantasies), the goal would be easier to visualize. The demand for equality, not domination, is immensely complicated. True equality between autonomous partners is hard to achieve even if both partners are of the same sex. The careful balancing of roles and obligations and privileges, without the traditional patterns to fall back on, sometimes seems like an almost Utopian vision...
Fired-Up Demand. The annual report of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in January discussed the 4% goal as if it were impossibly Utopian. A confidential Administration paper drafted by Herman Liebling, the Treasury's senior economic forecaster, says flatly that "a 4% unemployment rate as a national goal is not feasible without significant inflation." Liebling figures that a 5% rate "might represent the maximum benefit from cyclical expansion without unleashing unwanted inflationary repercussions." When the paper leaked last week, Liebling's boss, Treasury Secretary John Connally, went before the congressional Joint Economic Committee...