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Novelist's Skill. In between, with a series of interlocking biographical sketches, Wilson introduces a handful of men and ideas that helps link Vice's original insight about the possibilities of historic progress first with Utopian socialism, then with Marxism, and finally with Lenin's fateful arrival at power. With a biographical novelist's skill, Wilson also manages to suggest much of the political and philosophical history of 19th century Europe. A series of clashes (1830, 1848 and, in France, 1870) only slowly confirmed-and often simply denied-the rights of man briefly proclaimed...
...organizing methods, Alinsky set up a training school for organizers, the Industrial Areas Foundation. With pickets, boycotts and stockholder revolts, he worked in behalf of impoverished Irish Americans in Chicago, unemployed blacks in Rochester, Chicanos in California and even tax-burdened middle-class whites in Pittsburgh. The emotional and Utopian character of recent radicals offended Alinsky's sense of pragmatism. He had no patience with either revolutionary black separatists or white hippie dropouts because both "dogmatically refuse to begin with the world as it is," scoffed at pure theorists because "a movement without organization is nothing more than...
...assassinations, if only because it has created the conditions in which the killers live and flourish. Something in U.S. society leads them to favor one particular outlet, now morbidly familiar. The assassinations are, in a way, a reflection of the emotionalism of life in America today: near-utopian expectations from American life and a spurned lover's disillusion when these expectations are unfulfilled. This is often combined with rootlessness, both geographic and moral. Cut off from any real community, the lonely men in rooming houses (but sometimes also on campuses or in the midst of prosperous suburbs) substitute fantasy...
...much as New York painters dominated theirs in the '60s. Last week in Manhattan, the Museum of Modern Art opened an impressive display of home furnishings and environments entitled Italy: The New Domestic Landscape. The show gives a fascinating overview of the projects-commercial, speculative and Utopian-that have occupied designers in Milan, Turin, Florence and Rome for the past decade...
...fashions, at least the more expensive lines, are promised to be sturdier and less complicated than present offerings, with soft fabrics and classic lines predominating. "The gag thing is over," says Designer Chester Weinberg. "Now clothes are going to become simpler." Until stores can be stocked with these Utopian raiments, women will have to follow the advice of Bonwit's Helen Galland: "People should look closely. It is very obvious what is well made and what is not." Or a woman could simply give in to the natural impulse to wear a newly purchased dress out of the store...