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...this operetta goes a lot further than any of its predecessors. "Utopia Ltd." has been unpopular since its first night in 1893 because it is just about as satiric as a light opera can be. Instead of attacking such innocent clay-pigeons as the nobility or Oscar Wilde or Tennyson, Gilbert allows his tricky verses to bite into the touchy and important phases of modern life. The hypocrisy behind commercialism in modern government and behind sexual morality is hit hard in this work about a utopian isle that tries to become anglicized. The king sends his daughters to be schooled...
...imperfect; all in all excellent for an amateur group. The pity is that the D'Oyly Carte, presently in New York and hoped-for in Boston, does not add "Utopia Ltd." to its repertory. But perhaps the oldtimers are still wary, believing that their black sheep will he as unpopular today as it was fifty-five years...
...know," he said last week "I am an authoritarian type, and unpopular. I don't want to be popular, I want to do a job. . . . Our members own 800,000 places of business in France. The government knows we can ring down 800,000 iron curtains...
...Compromise. What accomplishment can these experimentalists show? Spearhead writers are generally distinguished by devotion to what they consider standards of great art. In love with words, scorning the cheap and obvious, aiming for goals that often seem peculiar and are always unpopular, they have resigned themselves to a precarious existence on the outskirts of the U.S. literary world...
...overall picture of the campaign for control of Cambridge schools and its city government seems couched in terms of progress versus inertia and politics. City administration by an appointed manager becomes vastly unpopular with politicians when lucrative sub-contracts are no longer available. Today Cambridge shovels its own snow instead of contracting for a fleet of $5.00-an-hour trucks and 400 men at a net cost of more than $75,000 per snow storm. Those men eager to keep Cambridge from becoming a politician's plum are endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association. The C.C.A. has also endorsed Richard...