Word: utopianism
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...that they chose to replace “gay” with “queer” to be more inclusive and to replace “liberation” with “resistance,” because, as Carbellano explains, “liberation is too utopian, resistance is more active, more of an ongoing process...
...would probably have kept him out of such places in pre-Castro Cuba. Segundo, born Maximo Francisco Repilado Mu?oz in Siboney, Cuba, was the grandson of a freed slave. When fame came knocking on his door again, I think Segundo did not mind becoming another feather in Castro's utopian hat, adding poetry and charm to the drier accomplishments of universal health care, equal job opportunity, and subsidized education...
...constructed dioramas of crime scenes, which Miller likened to “demented doll houses,” which focused on women as victims in primarily domestic spaces. The dioramas and the famous house in which Glessner Lee grew up present “utopian and dystopian designs,” Miller said. She plans to compare the differing takes on domesticity found in the house and in the dioramas...
...good deal of “big courses are bad courses” rhetoric is being heard in the context of the curricular review, which goes hand in hand with the “students should not pick courses by shopping” rhetoric. One wonders what utopian world would hold no educational benefit from shopping, and hence no student pressure to retain shopping, and would also have no big courses...
...Iraq--five of the six credible presidential candidates did, but only Joe Lieberman supported the President's policies without reservation. Most Democrats were dragged along on this adventure, carrying suspicions that it was, at bottom, equal parts political enterprise concocted by Rove, ideological enterprise concocted by utopian neoconservatives, and family psychodrama--young Bush avenging and one-upping his old man. There was, as always, a congenital distrust of all things martial among the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," as Howard Dean would say. And it was Dean who made himself into a semi-plausible contender by voicing these suspicions...