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Benson's program has failed because the concept of a parity price fluctuating with the commodity surplus is based on traditional laissez-faire economics. The Secretary emphasizes the large, efficient farmer as the future occupant on an agricultural utopia. But it is the small, inefficient farmer who really needs government aid to finance a shift from surplus crops to those in greater demand...
...exactly the sort Ehrenburg means when he talks about imperialist hyenas. What is more, Regnery commissioned Fellow Hyena Russell Kirk (The Conservative Mind) to explain in an accompanying essay why he has published the dreadful bit of work. Reason: this book shows perfectly that life itself "in the Revolutionary Utopia ... has faded away to this boredom with the present and this indifference to the future...
Despite Scanlon's brusque ways, the companies who have tried his plan are sold on it. Said President Leo Beckwith of the Market Forge Co. of Everett, Mass., a Scanlon plant since 1947: "Maybe it isn't the Utopia that some people try to make it, but it has been a fine thing. If for any reason we ever had to drop it, the boys in the plant would be very unhappy and so would I." The vice president of an Illinois company was even more enthusiastic: "As far as I'm concerned, Joe has the answer...
...Harvest Books (Harcourt, Brace), to get under way in August with such chewy fare as Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia and C. G. Jung's Modern Man in Search of a Soul...
University Hall's examination staff has its own private definition of utopia--a place where no student ever misreads a schedule or oversleeps, and every examination comes and goes with administrative smoothness. Unfortunately, about a dozen students every term forget to appear for their tests. And there are even a few adventurous souls who try unsuccessfully to crack the University's virtually airtight security system for printing, guarding, and conducting examinations...