Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Utopia or nightmare? The plan shocked state governments and businessmen alike. In announcing a sweeping new series of antipollution regulations last week, the Environmental Protection Agency outlined a fundamental, even traumatic change in an American culture that has grown deeply -and as the EPA believes, dangerously -dependent upon the automobile...
Wrong. Setting up the hierarchy of his field-and-stream Utopia, Shepard writes: "The conception of both society and the future would be returned to the hands of elders-of adults -where it belongs...
Pidgin English. Nonetheless, this Utopia of equality produces results that are similar to those on the mainland. Honolulu's Kahala Elementary School and Palolo Elementary School, for instance, have similar buildings (concrete blocks, carpeted floors), employ similarly skilled teachers, and use the same curriculum. Yet on uniform tests, the children in Kahala score roughly twice as high as Palolo's students...
...friends." In St. Petersburg, Boeke reports that his flock includes two Casanovas of 75. In Sun City, a former model who looks 60 but is 82 boasts of having "the best boy friend in all of Sun City," a man of 72 with whom she has found "a Utopia...
...Judi Bowker), who has accompanied St. Francis on many an interminable nature-walk, any tenuous suspension of disbelief crumbles. Although Zeffirelli spares us cinematic tricks of visions and revelations, his harping on a band of post-adolescent outcasts of society, in search of their lost youth and a Rousseauian utopia, mars the simplicity of the tale just as badly. Treating the legend of St. Francis as a Christian fairy-tale might well have served Zeffirelli's artistic talents better than this poorly conceived Whole Earth Catalogue of the life, loves and politics of Italy's patron saint...