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...late August the group decided on District 65 because of its openness and its success in the Medical Area, and it started to hold open meetings at which Schroder and others would talk in glowing, Utopian terms about the need for a union and especially about the quality of District 65. The Harvard Employees Organizing Committee was out in the open...
Although the sect's Utopian approach to global problems often sounds like an Oriental echo of Moral Re-Armament, Ikeda carries more political clout than most religious leaders. His organization is the founder of Japan's Komeito (Clean Government) party, which emerged second only to the combined forces of the Socialists and Communists as an opposition party in the last election. Moreover, on his global mission for what he calls "lasting peace," Ikeda last year was received by both Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. When he visits the U.S. this week to address...
...MAJORITY of the Kink kultists present, the situation could not have been more utopian. Not only did the concert start promptly, but there was no warm-up group to try the waiting audience's patience. Furthermore, the two-part format of the concert allowed the audience to have its cake and eat, too. The first part, which lasted close to an hour, consisted of a well-chosen selection of former hits including such favorites as "You Really Got Me," "Celluloid Heroes," "Skin and Bones," "Here Comes Yet Another Day," and "Waterloo Sunset." When Ray Davies wasn't flopping around like...
...means. An eccentric? Certainly. Like Peter de Labigarre, who fled the French Revolution to the U.S., built the Chateau de Tivoli where the village now stands and planned a Utopian commune there, Broadmoore is a refugee-not from revolution but from what he regards as the all-pervasive standardization of American life. "I like to imagine that I am living in the 19th century," he told TIME'S Eileen Shields. "I call it an experiment. I am capable of discoursing in modern terms. But as soon as I am alone, I revert to my imagination, which is the past...
...obstreperous law professor, standing on his seat and singing La Marseillaise, or histrionically reciting a soliloquy from Shakespeare. Today, however, such romantic elan seems completely incongruous, and, in those rare instances when someone calls up an outlandish dream or invokes an outrageous vision, the individual is dismissed as a utopian or an eccentric...