Word: utopia
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...Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it's a dream that was, a twilit memory of the golden age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a blue-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The promise of paradise regained has become a key to the Democratic Party pitch. Mickey Kaus, a senior editor of the New Republic, says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U.S. enters a world where only the highly skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich...
...unlike all recent world's fairs, Expo '92 is not single-mindedly focused on wowing people with visions of the technology-intensive Utopia just around the corner. It is a comparatively backward-looking affair, a pageant of past progress. The official theme is "The Age of Discoveries," and that pretty much means European colonization, featuring full-scale replicas of Columbus' ships. In Europe, Eurocentrism is not yet a bad thing...
...that's needed for utopia, liberals imply, is more government spending on education (or Head Start, or housing, or drug counseling, or health care). If equality is at stake, freedom can fall by the wayside...
...production of the musical really picks up at this point, as the scheming, romancing and irrational characters all fight for power in Utopia...
...Utopia Ltd. will surely make for an enchanting evening. Its wonderful acting and lively eccentricities make for some very good viewing...