Word: utopians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear genie out of the bottle, it is all but impossible to put it back. Mankind cannot hope to "reinvent politics: to reinvent the world," as Schell proposed last year in The Fate of the Earth. National sovereignties are too entrenched and global consensus too elusive for Schell's "utopian vision" to be realized...
...third story, a Broadway-style libretto for a musical about Trotsky's visit to New York City in 1917, carries on the same theme. The cast dances its utopian way--"We do the dance now." /"A dance yet"/"Enough of this bourgeois nonsense"/--through the streets of the city in a Pythonesque recreation of Silk Stockings. Politics are essentially ignored, as Comrade Trotsky discovers the meaning of life though--what else--love...
That almost feudal interest makes it natural for the University to choose a utopian scheme for the structure's rehabilitation. Tenant activists argue correctly that the project could be done for less, but it would require HRE to continue to manage the building and revenues from the resulting rents might never reach the level of those of a lease on a luxury development. What is important, though, is that the outcome would be the same: Harvard would control the land at 122 Mt. Auburn St. for some unstated future...
...University of Amsterdam to write a master's thesis attacking the Marshall Plan, Kelly moved in 1972 to Brussels and a job at European Community headquarters that taught her, she says, about women's rights and nuclear arms. That same year, lured by what she called the "utopian hope" of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Kelly joined the Social Democratic Party, only to storm out in 1979 convinced that Brandt's successor, Helmut Schmidt, had betrayed the party's beliefs. Thereafter she joined the Greens, instantly becoming one of the party's brightest spokesmen...
...Marxist teachers who are now established in West German universities. This influence has presumably helped turn the Greens against capitalism. Adds Lowenthal: "The leftists have not taught them how I parliamentary democracy works or the importance of the legal system. They have not transmitted any of the Utopian Marxist hope. The Old Left is responsible for the gaps in the Greens' education...