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...with little succes. First the editors say they recognize that our generation (Are we a generation until we've done something?) is, in this order, silent, apathetic, decadent and delinquent. Then: "Withdrawal is not, for us, a retrogression into apathy; rather it rises from a realization that the secular Utopia is a mirage and that in the complexity of the outer world lies little meaning for the individual...
...with the case in some detail). Hoover's conclusion is a convincingly humble plea for Americans, particularly intellectuals, to restate the faith of their fathers. He does not mention the plain fact that a great many of these intellectuals have wanted the same thing the Communists themselves wanted-Utopia -but failed to see the secret policeman who lurks behind all schemes to legislate the world into goodness...
SURGEONS dream of the day when they will be able to replace any worn-out or damaged human organ with a spare part, either artificially made or taken from another person. That medical Utopia seems to be coming closer. Last week a little boy with a ruptured aorta was technically dead for 2¾ hours while surgeons put in a new bit of vital plumbing donated by a man recently dead. Another surgical feat, less dramatic but equally remarkable in its own way, was performed on a pretty teen-ager who, without knowing it, was becoming deformed by a curvature...
...what? The reader, poised on the edge of utopia, expects the utmost. But Dr. Farnsworth's utmost is a bit anti-climactic. Such a development is only "a complex function", the implementation of which "requires much attention from all members of the college community...
...forced commuting situation should be eased by other methods; for example, some people now compelled to live in the Houses might be permitted to stay outside. Forced commuting is at best an imperfect solution; but the Administration is right in accepting something less than Utopia in fulfilling its obligation to educate as many...