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THOUGH SUCH AMBITIONS may be admirable for the virtue they implicitly impute to mankind, they are also a trifle naive. Granted that the Greens themselves realize that their ultimate goals are nothing else than Utopian, one can hardly avoid questioning the maturity, at least the sincerity, of aspiring policymakers who propose relying on a program of civil disobedience in the face of a conquering totalitarian regime...
...large. This has not occurred even in Communist countries. Quite the contrary: although their regimes remain frozen in totalitarian molds, their reality has been persistently evolving toward more liberal forms. The world is certainly a freer place today that it was in 1948 when Orwell wrote his anti-utopian novel...
...ideological and moral confrontation between free and totalitarian societies, that as Peter Bender, an intellectual close to the SPD puts it, the "ideological era has come to an end." It was this decade long process of unilateral moral and political disarmament which contributed a great deal to the utopian confusions that have surfaced in Western Europe concerning the nature of the Soviet Union. If one draws out the logical conclusions of Egon Bahr's hopes for "change through rapprochement" the last stop can easily be the peace movement's slogan of "make peace without weapons...
...fact, Dartmouth is located in beautiful Hanover, N.H., where the foliage is now breathtaking, the air is always fresh and clean, the mountains are great for hiking and camping, and soon for hiking, and serenity of a college "alone in the wilderness," (from our motto) makes for a utopian setting for an education. I cannot understand how Mr. Knobler got that image, for one thing about Dartmouth that cannot he disputed is that it is really beautiful...
...rock on which many churches have built their following, but one which has often opened an unbridgeable chasm between hope and reality, thus assuring that anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present. Of all the reasons for antiutopianism, perhaps the strongest has been that former Utopian visions offered nothing but momentary heart leaps, that in hard-nosed modern terms, Utopias did not work...