Word: futurama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without poles for the Ringling Bros, circus. Designer of more than 50 theatrical productions (Ziegfeld Follies; Lady, Be Good; Fifty Million Frenchmen), he was also one of the first big-time talents to enter the field of industrial design, crowned that phase of his activities with the General Motors Futurama at the 1939 New York World's Fair...
...Mumford sees him, contemporary man is about as well suited to a place in the Mumford futurama as a Rhode Island rooster is suited to cooing like a dove and soaring like an eagle. Modern man has but one real belief: "Modern man can do no wrong." He regards all strong emotions (with the exception of violence) as "hysterical or funny." The "morality of the 'dead-pan'" is so exclusively his basic morality that by the time he reaches college he has one chance in three of being a "moral imbecile." He is "too numb even to hate...