Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Puttermesser and Xanthippe. The former is a lawyer in New York's department of receipts and disbursements; the latter a female golem, an artificial being that Puttermesser fashioned from potting soil. With Xanthippe's aid, the civil ser vant becomes mayor and turns the city into a Utopia. Unfortunately, it is the nature of golems to turn against their creators. Xanthippe plays a succubus, sleeps with every man in the administration, and the city returns to chaos...
...place in the context of historic continuity. It does not parade in either a "traditional" or futuristic costume. As time goes by, the context keeps changing. That is why, as each new generation of designers must learn, even the best design does not seem to bring us closer to Utopia. But, as Sir Henry Wotton observed some 350 years ago, the best design gives us "commodity, firmness and delight...
...rally comes in the wake of death threats signed by Utopia, sent to an unidentified Black male gay student...
...Utopia leaflets advocating white supremacy, U.S. superiority and the suppression of gay rights appeared on the Amherst campus a few weeks...
...will not sit back as long as sentiments like those of Utopia exist," Diana Ohlbaum, a member of the Amherst College Action Coalition, said...