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...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...
...excessive, as the smell of honeysuckle can be excessive." He describes Gene McCarthy's followers: "Their common denominator seemed to be in some blank area of the soul, a species of disinfected idealism which gave one the impression among them of living in a lobotomized ward of Upper Utopia...
...federal and provincial governments. Promising to "plug the people into the decision-making process," Trudeau has urged all Canadians to join in the coming constitutional debate, challenging them "to embark wholeheartedly on a journey whose destination is uncertain. Our country deserves more than a blind rush to some imagined Utopia, or a blind faith in the prejudices of the past...