Word: utopians
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...abstract, whether "decorative" (Alan Shields, Valerie Jaudon or the exuberant Judy Pfaff, whose manic, space-consuming constructions are hybrids of painting and sculpture) or more ostensibly rigorous in its aims, like that of Gary Stephan, 42. His paintings are like massive and vivid reflections on late cubism, especially the utopian "cubifying" abstraction of the 1920s, as practiced by such artists as Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky and Prampolini. They have the visionary character of ideal forms -- ovals, cones, circles, cubes -- moving in deep space, its depth contradicted by puzzling abutment and reflections that block the view, break the recession and direct...
Some businessmen also dispute Weitzman's reasoning. They argue that companies cannot add employees unless demand for their products increases. "Weitzman has a utopian idea," says Kevin O'Donnell, president of SIFCO Industries, a metalworking firm based in Cleveland. Many economists praise the theoretical elegance of Weitzman's plan, but doubt that it could be put into practice any time soon, if at all. Says David Glasner, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: "Workers simply prefer having a known wage rate and do not want to take the risk of a variable income." Contends Melvin Reder...
...Marxism. After a century of foreign humiliation and social iniquity, China in 1949 grabbed at Marxism as a panacea for national renewal. The medicine worked as a purgative but failed as a restorative. It is restoration that China now needs more than anything. After three decades of coercive utopian experimentation, a return to ethics, for three millenniums the unifying theme of Chinese culture, may help. Optimists will be warmed by an event planned for next May: the formation, after years of contempt for the past, of the Peking Academy for the Study of Confucianism and the Chinese Classics...
...Star Wars threatens to upset deterrence and arms control alike. In his landmark speech unveiling his Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I.) in March 1983, Reagan said that his goal was to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." The Soviets read this not as a utopian dream but as an ominous threat: it was clearly their nuclear arsenal that Reagan most wanted to consign to the ash heap of history. The effect, as they saw it, would be to neutralize Soviet retaliatory forces and thereby make the U.S.S.R. a tempting target for a first strike...
...there a real and permanent change in American attitudes? Perhaps. Many Americans have been left out of the economic recovery; on the other hand, it would be utopian, or typically American, to think that all could be included. The measure that Yankelovich trusts is the poll on confidence in American institutions. At the time of John Kennedy's assassination, about two-thirds of those polled said they trusted that Government was run for the benefit of all the people. But as the nation lurched through the Viet Nam years, through Watergate and double-digit interest rates and inflation...