Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British new towns are a long, long way from Utopia. But some of the revolutionary ideas that are making the new towns will not doubt pan out. Meanwhile, the new towners are living in nicer homes and enjoying more community facilities than they ever would have dreamed possible. Even the conflicts between new towners, Old Skelmers, and corporation executives seem small in some perspectives. One event, for example, brought the whole town resoundingly together--Skelm's climb to the amateur soccer final at Wembley
...Western Europe (this is the first to appear in the U.S.), seems to suggest that modern technological man has lost meaningful continuity with the broader patterns of human destiny. Yanovsky puts force into this familiar proposition by his crisp, evocative writing and the persuasive allure of his slightly disturbing Utopia. At the end, he sends Cornelius back to the village to take up life there as if he had never left. It is a neat finish for his tale, but, alas, he has left the reader no road map to that village...
Many colleges are receptive even to the specialized interests of a relatively small number of students. Thus Wesleyan's psychology department bowed to undergraduate requests for a course on "witchcraft and the occult." Among some 15 student-requested courses created at Stanford were seminars on "Ideology and Utopia" and "Anarchism and Fascism." The City College of New York is offering two courses on music of the Orient taught by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, and, for the first time, an interdepartmental major in oceanography. The Political Science Club at Northwestern secured academic credit for students to work in Springfield...
...hippie movement is comparable to a temper tantrum. Peace, love and honesty as goals are not original with the hippies. The hippie conception of Utopia is sentimentalized love, license in place of honesty, distortion of the arts and of ethics, replacement of the peace pipe by pot. You state that gentle treatment is accorded hippies by "people in authority." The reason for this just could be the tendency to take these people's exhibitionism as a serious movement, or to fear to be considered "straight." Why not be proud to be? Granted that materialism and other abuses abound...
...much. The small band of revolutionaries who seized power in Russia achieved a momentous transformation of their country and of the world. Perhaps even more extraordinary are the changes in the nature of Communism itself that took place during that half-century. The vision of the great socialist Utopia collapsed first under bloody totalitarianism, was eroded further by a crude Russian imperialism, and is reeling today before the counterattack of nationalist sentiment and pragmatic economics...