Word: utopians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mitterrand's assessment rings even more true today. While Mitterrand stayed secluded, Mauroy (pronounced Mawr-wah) led the party's campaign, winning the confidence of voters with his calm advocacy of socialism and the image of a practical man more interested in solving problems than in spinning utopian visions. Says Mauroy: "To change society, you have to reject the illusion of revolution...
...work of "these chemists who pile up little dots," as Gauguin contemptuously named the pointillists, was to the 1890s what constructivism would be to the 1920s: the house style of Utopian socialism in its various forms. Pissarro was a fervent anarchist, and his dot-crusted scenes of idyllic rural labor (as stylized and unreal, in some ways, as any 18th century pastoral) are attempts, not always successful, to convey an ideal vision of social dignity based on freely shared work. In this he was the heir of Millet as well-though he certainly did not know peasant life as Millet...
...shares certain values - Wasp, smalltown, morally conservative - and certain talents - for technological innovation, cost-conscious super vision of team creative effort and responsible merchandising of motion picture offshoots. Lucas also holds to Disney's vision of a community of creative film makers living and working together in a Utopian atmosphere. The Disney studio never came close to that, but Lucas has already started construction on his communal Lucas Valley compound, north of San Francisco...
Perhaps the most radical change the Law School is considering is Professor Duncan Kennedy's "Utopian proposal." Kennedy calls the Law School curriculum "a simple minded, center-liberal indoctrination in questionable eternal verities, sugar-coated as professional expertise and lawyerly knack." He has called for courses in legal philosophy, and the increased use of computers and vidco tape instead of teachers for first year courses. Teachers, he says, should be used to advise students and not to lecture them. The most controversial of Kennedy's proposals is his plan to make admissions by lottery and equalize the salaries...
...book, Djilas describes several abominable and not-so-well-known elements of Tito's regime. The concentration camps, the one-party system, the purges of the opposition, and the eradication of the democratic movements destroy any image of Yugoslavia as a utopian state. Nevertheless, Yugoslavia was certainly superior to other developing non-aligned nations of that era in civil liberties permitted...