Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditionally been ramshackle structures-ill-assorted odds and ends of lumber loosely nailed together by cautious, compromise-minded committees. By comparison, the 1960 Democratic platform, grandly entitled "The Rights of Man," is a well-made document: straightforward, clear, brief and-as platforms go-probably the most coherent blueprint for Utopia ever to come out of a convention. As such, it reflected not only the promises of the candidate but the leanings of its principal architect: Platform Committee Chairman Chester Bowles, 59, Congressman from Connecticut, prospeous ex-adman (Benton & Bowles), Harry Truman's best-known Ambassador to In dia, Kennedy...
...goes down to his defeat. Ivan dreams of a characteristic revenge: he has invented a supermachine. he says, that can do anything. In a flash, it could bring about the perfection of the new Utopia...
...Administration's remaining nine months, Herter hopes to lessen "the dangers of the Frankenstein monsters we have created in the war machines of the world," with the first shackle on the nuclear monster possibly a test-ban treaty. But last week Chris Herter characteristically promised no international Utopia in his speech to the National Association of Broad casters in Chicago. "We can hardly move forward confidently in negotiating new arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union if our existing agreements with them about Berlin are meanwhile being violated," said he. "If anyone looks for dramatic achievements at the summit...
Scholar's Utopia. In 27 years, 175 gifted graduates of 58 colleges around the world have heard these words before beginning a dream life at Harvard. The society's nine Senior Fellows pick the Junior Fellows because they give rare promise of original work; the idea is to free them of the usual clock-punching requirements of graduate study. Turned loose for three years, the J.F.s can pursue whatever pleases them, from poetry to physics. They need not attend any courses or earn any degrees. At their full disposal are Harvard's libraries and laboratories; they...