Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixteenth century rolls around... A chancellor of Henry VIII's takes a step. He creates a land, Utopia, where no one works more than six hours a day. The shorter work week has arrived. But there is a catch...
...still an arrested child of the '30s, and of its idée fixe that the reformation of society produces a better crop of humans. When people were poor, society stunted them. When people are better off, society corrupts them. After three decades, she is still bemused by Utopia, bored by Existence, and, in T. S. Eliot's lines, "dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good...
...rules will probably remain more or less intact, out of consideration for other people in the Houses and in deference to public and parent's opinion. Surely, for some undergraduates, the chance to have fully relaxed relationships with women is as important as an additional year in an intellectual Utopia...
...throughout the first act you don't really understand why he doesn't opt you. But then he says he doesn't want to live in a world full of poverty and disease and misery ("sensitive" somebody explained to me afterwards). For him the madhouse offers, if not utopia, the possible circumstances of love...
...could ever be fully actualized." Even the best-intentioned of the lot, said Huxley to the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, would have created societies "as horribly inhuman as Orwell's 1984" or his own Brave New World. More's Utopia, said he, is "paternalistic state socialism administered like an old-fashioned boarding school"; Plato advocated childhood conditioning, censorship and "compulsory virtue"; Fourier had "a pathological lust for social tidiness." Said Huxley: "Most utopists have had the souls, but happily not the effective power, of drill sergeants and dictators." Blonde Jean...