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...future were very easy to tap into in the '50s," he says. "There were so many challenges left unrealized because of the Depression and World War II--there was a lot left to dream about." The promise of the future then was one of hope, of a technological utopia. But the sometimes bad, mostly prosaic way in which many of those dreams eventually came true (space-travel perception: vacation on the moon; space-travel reality: a bunch of Russians stuck for months in a ratty old orbiter) may have dulled people's appetites for looking further forward. We like...
...tenor compels few to question his words asanything but gospel. And so, looking upon his fullcongregation on Sundays at Memorial Church, Gomesconcludes that "Godless Harvard" is not Godless atall. He illuminates a backlash to the scientificemphasis on quantification and demystification.Gomes says that the realization that "science hasnot produced a utopia" has buoyed a risingspiritual tide that "makes it easier to preach in1998 than...
...contemporary of Nostradamus was Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was not so much a vision of the future as a vision of a better society and thus a reproach to present evils. But henceforth, Utopian dreams of reform invariably mingled with anticipation of tomorrow. This was particularly true in the 18th century, with the Age of Reason's belief in the perfectibility of human nature and the near inevitability of progress. Revolution was in the air, and revolution itself is a kind of prophecy--a violent prediction...
...known only as Brother No. 1, took power in April 1975, he vowed to turn back the clock to "Year Zero." In the name of a bizarre blend of peasant romanticism and radical Maoism, the Khmer Rouge conducted a reign of terror intended to give birth to an agrarian utopia. At the point of their guns, they emptied Cambodia's cities, abolished money and markets, shut down schools and Buddhist monasteries and forced the entire country to wear black pajamas as a sign of "instant communism." Inspired by China's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot carried its practices to the extreme...
...explain my position about this little utopia of movie plot scenarios. There's a scene in U.S. Marshals where Gerard catches Sheridan picking his handcuffs off and asks him whether or not he's going to escape because Gerard is busy and can't watch him just now that characterizes the mood of the film. Jones is aboard the prison transport plane because of this stupid public relations reason that his superior all but made up. (Didn't these people see ConAir? Why is it that people have to fly criminals anywhere? It's not like they have anywhere...