Word: arcadias
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...never have heard of Gustav Klimt or even Monet, but another section of Fantasia, the Pastoral, now looks like a shotgun marriage of the two, with Disney's plump, nippleless nymphs and plow-horse centaurs cavorting around the iridescent blooms and bubbles of a pond in Arcadia...
Also: Sidney S. Soldate of Leverett House and Arcadia, Calif.; Gayle L. Stephens of Dudley House and Wichita, kansas; Kenneth P. Swartz of Mather House and Newton; John A. Vering III of Eliot House and Marysville, Kansas; and, Brent H. Vine of Mather House and West Princeton...
...Arcadia that seemed to be slipping away -as indeed it was. "I consider," he wrote in 1888, "that women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters...The woman who is an artist is merely ridiculous...Gracefulness is a woman's domain and even her duty... In former times, women freely sang and danced in order to be winsome and pleasing to men. Today they must be paid off; the charm has gone...
...making "antigrowth" a positive value. He suggests a new economics of "low-consumption" based on "kinship, friendship, cooperation." If they are not paralyzed by cynicism or timidity, a saving remnant of "hip artisans," "ecological activists," "people's architects" and "dropped-out professionals" will find their way back to Arcadia and the "rich religious disciplines of self-realization...
Dubos not only wonders if there was an Old Arcadia, he wonders if there is a New Apocalypse. He suspects that when man became an agricultural animal, the earth was ravaged worse than when he became a technological animal. "All living systems are irreversibly changed by almost any kind of experience," he writes, adding the hopeful corollary: "Destruction always results in a different creation...