Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told R. Buckminister Fuller that he frequently used Fuller's concepts for his cartoons. Fifty years later, the ideas that Fuller originated still seem right out of sei-fi magazines. Fuller's previous inspirations were mostly technological; now he has coordinated ideas with experience into a blueprint for attaining utopia. He believes that fear of want could destroy the world, and wants to point humanity along the Critical Path before Arrnageddon comes. The weakness and strength of Fuller's book lie in his prognostications--they seem too fantastic, yet at the same time, one does not want to give...
...professors agreed that the ideal discussion is an unrealizable utopia because it presupposes equality among the students, which does not exist and implies equal status of teacher and student, which is impossible if the teacher is grading the class...
...ears. Even Foot, a firebrand himself in his youth, has been overtaken by a new breed of militant British leftists. They are mostly youthful, largely middle-class ideologues who habitually spout Marx, Lenin and Trotsky but shun Soviet-style Communism. Combining pie-in-the-sky visions of a British Utopia with a pragmatic flair for nuts-and-bolts political organizing, they have driven a wedge deep into the 80-year-old Labor Party...
Joseph Cornell was not merely American; he was obsessively and essentially so, resembling Edgar Allan Poe in his fixation on a dream Europe that he could never bring himself to visit. He spent most of his working life in a frame house on Utopia Parkway in Queens, N.Y., which he shared with his mother and his brother Robert, who had been crippled in childhood by cerebral palsy. It was a distinct comedown from his earlier years, when his father (also Joseph), who died in 1917, supported his family in elegance by buying and designing textiles. From that domestic seclusion...
...vicious, self-perpetuating cycle that must be dealt with now, before too many more athletes drift throught the Ivy League--and through Harvard--retaining a bitter aftertaste for college life. Such disillusion should not be passively endured, especially not in the Ivy League, where you are told to expect Utopia...