Word: utopians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...otherwise utopian atmosphere of the castle is spoiled by the affair of Lance and Jenny; she cannot resist his physical prowess. This second act is comparatively heavy due to the sad unraveling of Arthur's ideals, but the acting compensates well. Korn is a mystified but never self-pitying king and the two lovers generate a high reading on the steamometer. The rest of the east is consistently supportive, but generally better at clownishness than solemnity. Mordren (Jon Tolins), Arthur's wicked illegitimate son, is especially adept at delivering bitingly sarcastic lines like "Ah, Camelot--where the King gives freedom...
...book's conclusion is a brief attempt to draw theoretical lessons from the experiences it recounts. It is entertaining and meaningful when Berger presents a utopian vision of a once decaying and polluted industrial city that has cleaned itself up and now exists in equilibrium with the environment...
Berger is the last to expect the sort of perfect restoration in his utopian vision. His book presents hope with a large dose of very guarded expectations. Yet the people he describes have started down the right road. As Congressman Udall declares at the end of his forward: "Their stories are an inspiration and a beginning. What follows...
...decades ago to create the United Nations, they invested the newly begotten global organization with the dreamiest hope of mankind: "To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." Some 130 wars and more than 16 million fatalities later, the question is not whether the U.N. can fulfill its utopian promise--all too obviously it cannot--but what role, if any, it can play in the future...
...exercise their "right to rest." The guarantee is contained in Article 41 of the constitution, and is printed on banners and billboards on the shoreline of the country's holiday heartland along the Russian and Georgian coasts of the Black Sea. As with many aspects of Soviet life, the utopian ideal is often more attractive than socialist reality...