Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REYKJAVIK SUMMIT raised hopes about an agreement for the abolition of nuclear weapons, but it appeared to founder on the President's intransigence over his Strategic Defense Initiative. One proposed utopia appeared to defeat another. How should we think about SDI and the long-term future of nuclear deterrence...
...Fathers knew that . . . the power of the judiciary could be abused," said Reagan last fall, the framers crafted a meticulously worded Constitution whose instructions must be strictly followed according to the spirit in which they were first written, and not interpreted to conform to "anyone's personal view of utopia." Under this presidential reasoning, since the Constitution does not specifically mention, for example, abortion, the Supreme Court has no right telling anyone, including the states, what to do about...
Such weights evoke violent reactions. The futurists set out to create the image of an Italy that did not yet exist, a utopia of tension and transformation whose god was the machine. Its architecture would not be the old cellular stone hill town but the dream environment conjured up by Sant'Elia: all girders and concrete cliffs, with glass elevators zipping up the exterior walls. Its painting would try to encompass not just sight but noise, heat and smell; above all, it would depict movement. To fix this industrial mode in Italian (and European) culture, the pastoral mode...
...solitary glade; Adam and Eve would have seemed considerably less charmed had they been surrounded by squawking kids, knickknack vendors and a row of time-share condos. Every visitor hopes to keep his idyl to himself; he's in heaven, and hell is other people. "The place is a Utopia," he's likely to tell his friends, "but there's no point in your going there. I saw it pristine, but now it's spoiled forever...
...16th century English scholar and martyred Chancellor to Henry VIII. In St. Thomas More, Cuomo found a fellow lawyer, a man of great gifts and profound flaws who reminded him of his own imperfections while providing a model of how to live with them. More's famous work Utopia describes an island where both religion and reason work to support ethical norms and the aim of society is to provide in a communal way for all citizens...