Word: utopias
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...didactic: "we are not longer content with some quality, Harvard." And her thesis, which could be the theme of this, the first Harvard-Radcliffe Yearbook, is simple: Cliffies must resolve their ambivalent position in the college community as girls, and girls, who go to Harvard. But Miss Levine's utopia rings false: "we want football tickets, travelling fellowships, representation on educational policy committees." Hers is a world of things, not emotions, desires, or values (and, except for fellowships, they are rather small things at that: "we want a graduation ceremony that is part of Harvard's.") Her tragi-comic, feminist...
...need for independent thought is greater than ever. With the decline of ideology, the large causes and massive generalizations of past decades have vanished. The Marxist Utopia broke down in shame and despair-but the relatively simple anti-Communism of the early cold war years is no longer tenable either. Nothing as large and easy as antiFascism or anti-McCarthyism is available to the intellectual today. The Government has so steadily adopted the radical programs of yesterday that some intellectuals are desperately trying to stay left of Washington and attempting, not very successfully, to create "a new radicalism." There...
Besieged by Noise. Some prophets however, see no near-future Utopia brought to reality by Early Bird and its progeny. "I doubt if more food will be grown in India," says RAND Corp Sociologist Joseph Goldsen, "even if every village gets a television set with lecturers teaching new agricultural techniques every hour. It takes generations to change customs and traditions. Only a few years ago, we used to pipe-dream about a TV-satellite system that was ten to 20 years away. It doesn't seem that far off any more, but what will it be used to transmit...
...from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits. It is a living, creative body...
...with getting a job done, attentive to down-to-earth detail, indifferent to dogma. "The short and sure road to despair and surrender is this," he wrote, "to believe that there is, somewhere, a scheme of things that will eliminate conflict, struggle, stupidity, cupidity, personal jealousy. The idea of Utopia is mischievous. as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is bom pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward...