Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ideas in Practice. But when Hitler began to realize this satanic Utopia, Juenger, an aristocratic esthete, balked. It was one thing to preach total discipline, another thing to experience it. For the first six years of the Nazi reign he wrote mostly of private and nonpolitical matters. A few days after the Nazi invasion of Poland he published On the Marble Cliffs, a strange allegorical novel, clearly anti-Nazi in intention. Even those who hated Juenger and all he had stood for had to admit that its publication was an act of courage...
...Peabody Players, who have been performing the old operetta standbys for years, did a valuable service last week by presenting "Utopia Ltd.," reputedly the best of the G. and S. black sheep. It was immediately evident that the reason the piece has been kept off the boards is not that its music of lyrics are inferior. Like the other operettas, "Utopia Ltd." has an internal mood all its own, closest perhaps to "The Gondoliers," the team's preceding production. Here are all the excellences of the great team; the unflagging whimsy, the astounding rhymes, the catchy and truly lyrical music...
...this operetta goes a lot further than any of its predecessors. "Utopia Ltd." has been unpopular since its first night in 1893 because it is just about as satiric as a light opera can be. Instead of attacking such innocent clay-pigeons as the nobility or Oscar Wilde or Tennyson, Gilbert allows his tricky verses to bite into the touchy and important phases of modern life. The hypocrisy behind commercialism in modern government and behind sexual morality is hit hard in this work about a utopian isle that tries to become anglicized. The king sends his daughters to be schooled...
...Peabody production was vigorous, though imperfect; all in all excellent for an amateur group. The pity is that the D'Oyly Carte, presently in New York and hoped-for in Boston, does not add "Utopia Ltd." to its repertory. But perhaps the oldtimers are still wary, believing that their black sheep will he as unpopular today as it was fifty-five years...
South India's new church of 1,000,000-odd members sounded to many in the sect-divided U.S. almost like Utopia attained. The U.S. Federal Council of Churches has been struggling all year to hold a conference of its 25 denominations merely to discuss the possibility of doing something about unity...