Word: utopians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Dartmouth is located in beautiful Hanover, N.H., where the foliage is now breathtaking, the air is always fresh and clean, the mountains are great for hiking and camping, and soon for hiking, and serenity of a college "alone in the wilderness," (from our motto) makes for a utopian setting for an education. I cannot understand how Mr. Knobler got that image, for one thing about Dartmouth that cannot he disputed is that it is really beautiful...
Such news may be greeted with utmost reluctance. The 1984 view of things has been almost spiritually important to recent generations because the book cooperated perfectly with this age's picture of the future. Besides 1984, the two main Utopian-indeed, antiutopian-texts of the time have been Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. They stand in stark contrast to the visions of past ages: Plato's Republic, Augustine's City of God, Dante's Paradise, More's Utopia, Rousseau, Kant, Marx and the American Dream, which...
...Utopia can no longer be isolated, as it was with Plato and More, and that any future view must by necessity account for a universe of differences on an interconnected planet. Or perhaps we have come to dissociate knowledge from progress-a faith in progress being essential to Utopian thought-seeing instead every recent advance of the mind as merely one step, neither forward nor backward, along a huge, pitiless circle...
...rock on which many churches have built their following, but one which has often opened an unbridgeable chasm between hope and reality, thus assuring that anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present. Of all the reasons for antiutopianism, perhaps the strongest has been that former Utopian visions offered nothing but momentary heart leaps, that in hard-nosed modern terms, Utopias did not work...
...brief moment in the 1960s, a group of architects inspired by Kenzo Tange and calling themselves Metabolists schemed to escape the mess with Utopian megastructures built into the sky or the sea. Having come back to earth, ex-Metabolists Fumihiko Maki, 54, and Arata Isozaki, 52, Japan's leading architects today, now seek to harmonize and integrate new and old architecture. In spirit, the old and the new have never been far apart. "We never saw the conflict that still seems to bother people in the West," says Nobaki Furuya, an architecture student at Waseda University. "We never...