Word: utopians
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Ironically, so does someone like Jonathan Schell, who dismissingly compares SALT to an aspirin administered to a patient with a terminal disease. While Schell's analysis of the potential danger of nuclear war is compelling, his prescription?general and complete disarmament and world government?is far too Utopian. And his thesis that the world is doomed if it does not take his advice is hardly helpful, since the world is almost certainly not going to take his advice...
Around 1920 the quest for an ultimate style that would correspond to social revolution and human self-improvement was one of the great issues of avant-garde art, the hope of the constructivist Internationale. And it became so for two main reasons: the growth of Utopian collectivist thought (mainly, but not only, Marxist) and the recoil from the horrors of World War I. "The period of destruction is totally finished," announced a De Stijl maniesto in 1923. "A new period begins: that of construction." It is a younger version of he sentiment hauntingly expressed in Dryden's Secular Masque...
...want to make them. Finally, the belief in progress and human enlightenment, on which De Stijl depended, encountered the brutal history that came in the '30s and '40s. And so, at this far remove, De Stijl retains its fascination as one of the subtlest tissues of Utopian ideas in the history of Western culture. But it is a vision that is proper to museums, and to art; we know that it cannot come true...
...view that the U.S. should abandon its current policy in El Salvador in favor of recommending negotiations between all interested parties, a position favored by the U.S. hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church (see box). At week's end, Duarte finally dismissed Lopez Portillo's suggestion as "utopian...
...Christmas cards we put on our mantels and tuck in our Venetian blinds are not just greetings from relatives, friends, would-be friends and dry cleaners. They are mirrors of American culture-the neighborly and the utopian, the tacky and the cutesie, the schmaltzy and the smutty, the corny and the phony, the humorous and the sentimental. Lately there are also some fresh and appealing designs, as well as good...