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...private investment agencies as the Atlantic Community Development Group for Latin America (ADELA), which Javits himself initiated two years ago. He compares Latin America today to the Europe of ten years ago. Then, despite an impressive degree of economic cooperation, a full-fledged, six-nation Common Market seemed a Utopian vision; three years later it was a reality...
...relevance of that vision was summed up by Vice President Hubert Humphrey at the opening session. "John XXIII presented to the world a public philosophy for a nuclear era," said Humphrey. "It represents not a Utopian blueprint for world peace, presupposing a sudden change in the nature of man. Rather, it represents a call to leaders of nations, presupposing only a gradual change in human institutions. It is not confined to elaborating the abstract virtues of peace, but looks to the building of a world community governed by institutions capable of preserving peace. We honor Pope John XXIII on this...
These problems led Tillich to conclude that there is a definite limit to hope for peace on earth as prescribed by Pope John. Men must "distinguish between genuine hope and Utopian expectations." Genuine hope is found in such factors as the atomic threat that has imposed on mankind a common destiny, the conquest of space that makes neighbors of distant nations, international cooperation in science and medicine...
...exam is nothing less than a course paper and should be treated as such. At the very least, blue books should be given back to students rather than stowed away. More important, graders should annotate the essays. And, more utopian, hours for conferences between graders and students should be arranged. Presently, of these requisites for exam grading only the first occurs at all and even then only with irregularity...
...Bostonians), desalinization of ocean water, purification of the air, creation of parks and "a green legacy" for the future. He was describing, in his own phrases, "the City of Promise," and in its attention to detail, the vision was almost worthy of some of the classic Utopians such as Étienne Cabet, who dreamed of a noiseless, dustless community, and Charles Fourier, who wanted to make lemonade from the sea. On closer inspection, the President's Utopian proposals were certainly within the realm of the possible in an America that feels it can do anything. The question...