Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more and more thoughtful people are objecting to the triumphal last act, the closer it seems to be. The reason for this lack of excitement at the by-now ritually invoked vision of material Utopia is that it has been held out too often. Today, at least in wintry moments of perception, it comes on as overblown and unconvincing as a TV commercial...
...Before," he says, referring to the days of Batista, "people like me had no chance. We were discriminated against either because we were black or because we were poor. Now we are judged on merit alone." Not enough Cubans share his enthusiasm, however, to usher in Castro's Utopia any time soon. How else can a social order be explained in which fully 2,400,000 of Cuba's 8,000,000 people belong to Comites para la defensa de la revolución, charged mainly with watching their neighbors...
...What the rebels and dissenters ask will not be found on the moon: social justice, peace, an end to hypocrisy-in short, Utopia. But to the extent that the rebels really want a particular kind of tomorrow-rather than simply a curse on, and an escape from, today-the moon flight of Apollo 8 shows how that Utopian tomorrow could come about. For this is what Westernized man can do. He will not turn into a passive, contemplative being; he will not drop out and turn off; he will not seek stability and inner peace in the quest for nirvana...
...Utopia is not a republic of fraternity to be taken by violence. Neither can it be taken by men who have no vision of better things for mankind...
...stresses and strains. Over the past eight years, production and general prosperity have continued to grow vigorously, despite political assassinations, race riots, international monetary crises and breaks in the stock market. In the past year the economy advanced in the face of all of that, and more. Yet economic Utopia is far from the nation's grasp. This year, the expansion has gone too far, too fast. In fact, there have been excessive increases in three vital areas: wages, prices and Government spending. During 1968, more than in any other year since the early 1950s, the joys of expansion...