Word: utopianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bostonians), desalinization of ocean water, purification of the air, creation of parks and "a green legacy" for the future. He was describing, in his own phrases, "the City of Promise," and in its attention to detail, the vision was almost worthy of some of the classic Utopians such as Étienne Cabet, who dreamed of a noiseless, dustless community, and Charles Fourier, who wanted to make lemonade from the sea. On closer inspection, the President's Utopian proposals were certainly within the realm of the possible in an America that feels it can do anything. The question...
Alone with Her Rubato. Landowska was constantly musing over the role of the interpreter in music. "One must have visions. The richer the imagination of a musician, the more possibilities of sonority he hears." She insisted that "the idea of objectivity is Utopian. Can the music of any composer maintain its integrity after passing through the living complex-sanguine or phlegmatic-of this or that interpreter?" But at the same time an artist must not go out of bounds, warns Landowska, reminded of the time Gounod had to chide his wife at a funeral: "Be careful; do not cry louder...
Long after the Alianza para el Progreso was launched in 1961, many Latin American governments clung to the convenient belief that it was just an other U.S. giveaway project. "It seemed well-meaning," as one top Latino puts it, "but rather Utopian and probably futile." Now, at last, that view seems to have changed. Last week, as diplomats and economists from a score of nations gathered in the Peruvian capi tal of Lima for the third annual full-dress review of the Alianza, there was encouraging evidence that most Latin American nations now accept its goals and are working...
...could hear. Tell the actors not to watch you, but to listen to the orchestra (this should increase co-ordination of singers and orchestra, and improve the acting). Ask Miss Janet Walker, who has the best voice in the cast, to sing in English, not Utopian. And tune the orchestra...
...America, and America is beautiful. It's the time when man gains full dominion under God over his own destiny. It's the time of peace on earth and good will among men." In Los Angeles, where tinsel dreams are mass-produced, Lyndon sounded every bit as Utopian. "We are going to have to rebuild our cities," he said. "We are going to have to reshape our mass transit facilities. We have to purify our air and to desalt our oceans. We are going to make all the deserts bloom." Think Positively. Just how would all this...