 | Margot A. Henriksen - History - 1997 - 496 pages
...functioning parts. In this is perhaps the outstanding paradox: we ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is that there is no viable...only of Utopias, but of any new departures as well. Feeling the press of complexity upon the emptiness of life, people are fearful of the thought that... | |
 | Tom Engelhardt - Popular culture - 1998 - 364 pages
...Society wrote in their founding statement in 1962, "Beneath the reassuring tones of the politicians . . . beneath the stagnation of those who have closed their...not only of Utopias, but of any new departures as well."24 If in abundance lay a potentially debilitating sense of nowhere to go; something — whether... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...functional parts. In this is perhaps the outstanding paradox: we ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is that there is no viable...only of Utopias, but of any new departures as well. Feeling the press of complexity upon the emptiness of life, people are fearful of the thought that... | |
 | Robert J. Bresler - History - 2000 - 286 pages
...functional parts. In this is perhaps the outstanding paradox: we ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is that there is no viable...only of Utopias but of any new departures as well. Feeling the press of complexity upon the emptiness of life, people are fearful of the thought that... | |
 | David Frum - History - 2008 - 450 pages
...denouncing this elderly caution. The United States, the Port Huron Statement complained, was pervaded by a "feeling that there simply are no alternatives, that...only of Utopias, but of any new departures as well." "For most Americans," the statement continued, "all crusades are suspect, threatening." It was time,... | |
 | Michael Scheibach - Social Science - 2003 - 292 pages
...technocratic world. This, in turn, had given rise to the vacuity of an entire society. Beneath the calm was "the pervading feeling that there simply are no alternatives,...only of Utopias, but of any new departures as well." Americans were feeling the emptiness of life. Only an "invisible framework seems to hold back chaos... | |
 | Marianne DeKoven - History - 2004 - 390 pages
...passage, as American apathy and helplessness are linked to the despairing repudiation of utopian visions: "beneath the stagnation of those who have closed their...only of Utopias, but of any new departures as well" (9). "Agenda for a Generation" ends, not surprisingly, with gestures simultaneously toward the universal... | |
 | Michael W. Flamm, David Steigerwald - History - 2008 - 228 pages
...eternally-functional parts. In this is perhaps the outstanding paradox: we ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is that there is no viable...only of Utopias, but of any new departures as well. Feeling the press of complexity upon the emptiness of life, people are fearful of the thought that... | |
 | Tom Engelhardt - Popular culture - 2007 - 410 pages
...Society wrote in their founding statement in 1962, "Beneath the reassuring tones of the politicians . . . beneath the stagnation of those who have closed their...not only of Utopias, but of any new departures as well."24 If in abundance lay a potentially debilitating sense of nowhere to go; something — whether... | |
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muddle through," beneath the stagnation of those who have closed their minds to the future, is the pervading feeling that there simply are no alternatives, that our times have witnessed the exhaustion not only of Utopias, but of any new departures as... 