Word: utopia
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Some plays are obscure for obvious reasons; with others, the fact that they’re not more well-known seems outrageously unfair once you’ve seen them. Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Utopia, Limited” is of the latter category...
...According to the Foreign Ministry, there has been a 40% increase in the number of those registering at French consulates abroad since 1995. People are leaving for all sorts of reasons, of course, ranging from greater opportunities to higher salaries, from romantic entanglements to the search for a foreign utopia that may not exist. Two people leave France every day for tax reasons alone, according to a recent Senate report. But for the most part, those leaving are not wealthy retirees looking for a place in the sun; they are talented and ambitious young people in their...
...stein clubs on Thursdays. And if you’re housed in Pfoho-Currier-Cabot? Good luck figuring out which is which. We know we’ve been out there once, but don’t really remember the details. Legend has it the Quad is a suburban utopia, where you’ll get used to cozy winter firesides, flowers in the spring, and blossoming romance in all seasons. We would check it out, but don’t have the five bucks for a cab. Freshmen, your future—whether in the form of a fist...
...made even stranger by the fact that an intact, modern city was churning away all around it. But in the '90s, as real estate values on the streets below started rising, developers began to clamor for the tracks to be demolished to make way for their perennial notion of utopia, which consists almost entirely of luxury apartments...
...Warfare would be written off as a waste of time; Muslims would give up their prophet; people would probably even stop voting Republican. Potheads would take over the world, for only they would know how to function under these new existential conditions, and preside over a peaceful, baked utopia. All our liberal goals would be achieved. So what are you waiting for Harvard? Go get high...