Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, though, Russia is no longer the passive pastoral society that quivered before Stalin. The Kremlin will increasingly feel the pressures of an urban culture that is no longer resigned to an indefinitely receding Utopia. Communism's Kafka-and-abacus stage is already being overtaken by its Pasternak-and-hi-fi era. Affluent Communists might not be any easier to live with. But they would certainly have more to live...
Abundance for What? puts forth some utopian ideas for reorganizing work and leisure patterns in America. The book encourages more though about a utopia. Riesman thinks that work for most of the world is clear cut: industrialization. For Americans, the notion of work is more complicated. Now that we've got the factories, what next...
...number of people with time on their hands. To do this we "need changes in the whole society: in its work, its political forms and its cultural styles." Such talk is no less revolutionary than what Goodman wants--utopian reforms. Here Riesman's thinking encounters difficulties. Any scheme for utopia requires a comprehensive view of man; otherwise large-scale social reform has no coherence or legitimacy. But, unlike the 18th century ideologues, Riesman has no driving metaphysic; his approach is "one of seeing rather than doing." To a pragmatist, interested in the implementation of ideas, Riesman's detachment would...
BILLY LIAR. The far-out fantasies of a young clerk (Tom Courtenay) delightfully transform one of those bleak English cities into a non-U Utopia...
...also a tendency to see in sex not only personal but social salvation-the last area of freedom in an industrialized society, the last frontier. In one of the really "in" books of recent years, Life Against Death, Norman O. Brown has even suggested a kind of sexual Utopia. In his vision, all repressions would be eliminated, along with civilization itself; the future would belong to sexuality, not just of the present "genital" variety, which Brown considers a form of tyranny, but the all-round, innocent sexuality a child