Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paradise envisioned in 1968 was not for everyone and would not last, refusing be found. The journey toward utopia would end up, like all others before it, a bad trip...
...would destroy age-old double standards by "lifting the Jewish people to equality in the family of nations." As Normon Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine writes, "the purpose of Israel was to normalize the Jewish people, not to perfect them. The Jewish state was to create not a utopia but a refuge from persecution...
Presidential elections aren't campaigns in utopia. But that's because this republic is run on different principles than Plato's. An American election is a conversation. It tells us what the parties and the voters are willing to say and hear. If it does so with a minimum of muck and outright lying, it has done its job relatively well. This one has. Bring on Dan Quayle and the A.C.L.U. cards...
...liberal who isn't proud of his flag, wants to make America weak militarily and wants to raise taxes. Bush has even trumped Dukakis' strongest cards--competent management and the Massachusetts Miracle--by throwing mouthfuls of statistics at the public implying that the Bay State is not half the utopia its Governor and would-be-President would have us believe. Bush supporters point to polls showing the two candidates running neck and neck...
...title story, a dreamy old sage steps out of his time machine with a typically Bradburian message: Utopia lies a century ahead. In fact, the traveler has never ventured farther than his laboratory. He fakes his trips in order to provide the earth with its most precious commodity: hope...