Word: utopian
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...early Mesoamerican civilization that survived from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 900 without a single war. So attuned to their environment were its members, so at peace with themselves, that they simply felt no need to fight, nor their neighbors to fight with them. Here, says Merton, was a Utopian existence that was not mere fantasy...
...diction. The gentry speak standard Chekhov, Victorian dialect. The upwardly mobile Lopakhin (Ken Tigar), sweet, young Anya (Carolyn Firth) and occasional flunkeys speak a slangy, colloquial tongue, fresh and awkward; while a pod of surrounding actors, led by the shlemielesque "perennial student" Trofimov (Lloyd Schwartz), with his utopian panegyrics discoursed of Yepikhodov, talk a well-tuned language of parody and farce. None of the specific lines of the translation is, as they say, memorable--Senelick's staging eye works better than his ear--but they are smooth and serviceable...
...leads to a mistake that we are liable to make no matter how else we agree or differ. In religious terms, it is to dwell too much on the possibility of the Apocalypse; in political terms, it is to dwell too much on the possibility of a Utopian Society. We must not confuse the ceremony and symbolism of today's service with the reality that we are only a few hundred people with very little power. And we must not confuse the change inside each of us, important though that may be, with the change that we have...
Verses & Wine. This feeling made a Utopian socialist of him. He influenced generations of obscure idealists throughout the world who read his News from Nowhere, a palimpsest of nonexistent felicities, as if it were a blueprint for the future. The illogic inherent in the notion that an infatuation with wimples, rood screens and the music of madrigals played on hautboys should give him title to prescribe for future generations seldom troubled Morris. If it had, he could not have led a life of such vigor and achievement...
...live together in peace, not only saying that the U.S. should disarm, but that we should not scream at one another in rehearsals-or if we do it, to understand why." The collective ideal seems to fall between the Group Theater of the '30s and a 19th century Utopian experiment like Brook Farm. Actress Jenny Hecht, daughter of Ben Hecht, puts it this way: "I want to live with people close, in a state of joy and loving." This may explain the eight children who travel with the 32-member troupe, not all of whom are accounted...