Word: utopianizing
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...conducted tour, picking his way buoyantly through the rubble, he can manage to see Brown's Mill as a stranger sees it-but not for long. For MacArthur, in this cavernous tomb to New England's vanished woolen industry lie the makings of a Utopian community, or at least a working model of the 1980s. Behind the bleak, randomly broken windows he imagines 92,000 sq. ft. of space filled by maybe 60 different cottage industries, all running off the mill's hydroelectric power. An ad listed under business opportunities in the Maine Times reads in part...
...going to have to start thinking less like businessmen and more like statesmen. By being practical instead of thoughtful, they become prisoners of circumstances beyond their control: namely, the governmental machinery that has been set up by Democrats with blueprints to burn. Their schemes may be bogus or Utopian, but they stir emotions and build up a following. Instead of sourly sniping at the welfare state, which is here to stay, Kristol urges Republicans to offer their own conservative version. A basic principle would be to let people provide for their own security as much as possible instead of having...
...people who cannot leave their homes, vending stands to be operated by the blind. In sum, HEW is as broad and varied as American life itself, surely one of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of the world, financed on a scale that would have amazed the most Utopian thinkers of the past...
...that respect, it is unlike the only comparable museum (in terms of cost, elaboration and civic importance) to have been built in recent years, the Pompidou Center in the Beaubourg section of Paris. "Le Pompidoglio," as the French sardonically call it, turned out to be one of those populist-utopian fantasies of the '60s that have not yet been made to work. As a public meeting place, it certainly succeeds. Half Paris has taken to riding up and down its dramatic glass escalator tube, squinting through the pigeon droppings on the curved panes at a superb view of the city...
...mutated, survived in Picasso and Matisse. Expressionism was an art of confession, directed against the impermeable crust of a deeply formalized society. It had few political ambitions-as German Dada did-but it did carry a strong current of social idealism. This did not show itself so much in Utopian schemes as in a vague aspiration toward spiritual improvement, salvation through sensitivity, the obverse of which was the weird consumptive eroticism of Schiele. If Schiele was the Cranach of the movement, Beckmann was its Goya: a maker of thickly constructed and disturbing fables in which the collective fantasies of postwar...