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Word: utopians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civil rights movement must move beyond the rhetoric of the past and develop "utopian thinking that people would be willing to sacrifice, dream, and struggle for," Kennedy said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Urban League Head Blasts Reagan | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

Gaddafi's cause and the means with which he pursues it are the result of his desert youth, his early military training and his scattered reading of utopian and anarchist writers. His father was an illiterate Bedouin shepherd, and Gaddafi was born in a goatskin tent in the desert near Surt. "The desert teaches you to rely on yourself," Gaddafi has written. "The values I learned there have remained with me all my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaddafi: Obsessed By a Ruthless, Messianic Vision | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Marshall Plan," Peres suggests that the major beneficiaries of the oil glut should ante up $20 billion to $30 billion for a fund to spur development in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. The proposal, even if not considered utopian, would face many obstacles, including the U.S. need to cut its budget and the reluctance of Arab countries, which have so far refused to join a program initiated by Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheap Oil! | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...when Reagan stood his ground, Gorbachev shifted his. In January the Soviet leader put Reagan on the public relations defensive with a headline-grabbing scheme to eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth by the year 2000. While the proposal was as cynical as it was utopian, it included an intriguing and far more practical offer that eases the terms for an INF deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Trotting Out a New Roadshow | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...utopian, Mies pursued rather luxurious ideas about appropriate modern style. It was his insistence on exquisite materials and craft that made his best work sublime rather than plain or mean. The pavilion in Barcelona was the apotheosis of posh Miesian austerity: slender chrome-plated columns, travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: His Was the Simplicity That Stuns | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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