Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, Utopia has not arrived. The sores of segregation and poverty still fester in many parts of the U.S. despite the real gains brought by such legislation as the Voting Rights Act and the poverty program. The big cities are in need of imaginative renewal if they are to remain livable. There are chinks in the President's all-embracing and long-enduring consensus that could widen into cracks before year's end. Under prodding to hold the line on prices, the business community is growing restless and resentful...
Ford Motors as Baal. The errors that Niebuhr confesses in this book of "my old age" are mostly errors of social and political philosophy. He was never a Communist sympathizer. He was always critical of an ideology that promised to build Utopia by destroying human freedom. Nevertheless, he was strongly influenced by Marx, and believed in the capacity of socialism to realize more fully than any other political system the Christian ideals of social justice and equality...
...didactic: "we are not longer content with some quality, Harvard." And her thesis, which could be the theme of this, the first Harvard-Radcliffe Yearbook, is simple: Cliffies must resolve their ambivalent position in the college community as girls, and girls, who go to Harvard. But Miss Levine's utopia rings false: "we want football tickets, travelling fellowships, representation on educational policy committees." Hers is a world of things, not emotions, desires, or values (and, except for fellowships, they are rather small things at that: "we want a graduation ceremony that is part of Harvard's.") Her tragi-comic, feminist...
...need for independent thought is greater than ever. With the decline of ideology, the large causes and massive generalizations of past decades have vanished. The Marxist Utopia broke down in shame and despair-but the relatively simple anti-Communism of the early cold war years is no longer tenable either. Nothing as large and easy as antiFascism or anti-McCarthyism is available to the intellectual today. The Government has so steadily adopted the radical programs of yesterday that some intellectuals are desperately trying to stay left of Washington and attempting, not very successfully, to create "a new radicalism." There...
Besieged by Noise. Some prophets however, see no near-future Utopia brought to reality by Early Bird and its progeny. "I doubt if more food will be grown in India," says RAND Corp Sociologist Joseph Goldsen, "even if every village gets a television set with lecturers teaching new agricultural techniques every hour. It takes generations to change customs and traditions. Only a few years ago, we used to pipe-dream about a TV-satellite system that was ten to 20 years away. It doesn't seem that far off any more, but what will it be used to transmit...