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...Washington Lawyer Charles S. Rhyne, onetime president of the American Bar Association and now chairman of its special Committee on World Peace Through the Rule of Law. Said Rhyne: "We must do the seemingly impossible by turning the opinion of most men from the view that our task is Utopian and beyond reach into the view that if man can split the atom and conquer outer space, he can also develop law rules and institutions to achieve and maintain world order...
Your article most impressively points up how ill harmonized the goals of the Chinese Communists are with the real needs of the Chinese people. No matter what "utopian" goals Mao Tse-tung and his colleagues have in mind for China, to gain them a long and fearful exploitation of an oppressed, hungry people seems a necessity. In their pursuance, as well, the Chinese people will be denied the invaluable help of reflecting upon their rich and noble past or upon any form of spiritual and moral ideals. The Chinese Communist "utopia" that may form, needless to say, will be void...
...that this is an uneven play. Director David Lelyveld has exploited the excitement of his situation to the utmost but too often he succumbs to touches of purest melodrama. The basic cause of unevenness, though, is Gardner himself, who is by turns eloquent, windy, perceptive, funny, pathetic, cynical, and utopian...
...these qualities churn together in the play's last scene, which mingles moving speeches and bathos to wind up tangled in a resigned, yet utopian conclusion. The Rain Never Falls is--fatal word--an interesting play...
Another challenge faced by the Utopian thinker is leisure time activities. Even today people "talk about leisure, but they don't do anything," he pointed out. And, if the perfect community can't devise anything which will draw people away from their TV sets, "it isn't worth...