Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater admits that the necessary initiative is lacking on the state and local levels, but says nothing about instilling this initiative in state and local officials. It is meaningless to say that each state is capable of supplying its own educational facilities, when state legislators lack the courage or vision to impose taxes sufficient to finance an adequate program...
...situation (a technician here is by no means a scab if he crosses the picket line) and that the symbolism behind this movement, if carried to its extreme, augurs extreme danger for the United States. To protest the manufacture of missiles is to harbor a hopelessly unrealistic vision of the present day world...
...whole; and the film, which was also written by Osborne and directed by Tony Richardson, is bedeviled by the same faults. Like Archie's life, it is too much of a mess, especially toward the end. Moreover, the attempt at social criticism is strained. Osborne's angry vision of England-as a peeling music hall in which no-talent bums hold the center of the stage and a public stupefied by socialized security hums mindlessly the theme song of the welfare state ("Why should I care, why should I let it touch me?")-is never less than...
Russian Doppelgänger. At one point in the story, an official jeers at an idealist: "You reformers! I suppose you'd like to see a kindly socialism, a free form of slavery . . .?" That is the vision that addles the heads of the two principal characters in the subplot-the student Seryozha and his girl Katya. Seryozha dreams of "a new world Communist and radiant" in which "top wages would be paid to cleaning women. Cabinet ministers would be kept on short rations to make sure of their disinterested motives. Money, torture and thievery would be abolished." Alas...
...Swift Visions. With great and often savage wit, the book reduces major philosophical questions to potted, page-long parables. Seryozha, for instance, loses his faith in God (Stalin) because, when he goes out with his school comrades to harvest potatoes, he discovers that the "electric plows" of Soviet propaganda do not exist. The insomniac Karlinsky wonders why death has not yet been abolished. And to match his vision of "The Future," one would have to go back to the indignatio saeva of Swift himself...