Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere in between the old and the new regimes wander the disillusioned intellectuals. They talk endlessly about European culture, Rousseau, God and Utopia -and then sadly reach for their revolvers and shoot themselves. Or they find themselves, as Arkady does, sucked in either by the commercials or the aristocrats, and bewailing the loss of their ideals. Among these lost ideals: the women of St. Petersburg, who fight with the savagery of harpies for marriage and security...
Colorful Cabinet. Even so, there were many who were not amused. Prudish Lewis Carroll found the expression "Damn me!" in H.M.S. Pinafore "sad beyond words," and Queen Victoria decided that what was sauce for the Emperor of Japan in The Mikado was a lot too saucy for her in Utopia, Limited (an almost forgotten G. & S. opera in which members of the British Cabinet were portrayed as blackface minstrels). Certain noble ladies forbore to confess with the mercenary Duchess in The Gondoliers...
...rented for $18 million, was a close second. RKO's The Bells of St. Mary's was the big-money movie ($8 million). Others in the "big ten" (which took in from $5,750,000 to $4,400,000): Leave Her to Heaven, Blue Skies, Road to Utopia, Spellbound, The Green Years, Adventure, Easy to Wed, Notorious, Two Years Before the Mast...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS) starts a series on the Renaissance with discussion of Sir Thomas More's Utopia. Participants: PM's Max Lemer, Author Eric Sevareid, Philosopher T. V. Smith of the University of Chicago...
...world's most fatal question. A large part of the answer depended on the new immigrant himself, but Trygve Lie, sawing and smoothing and (sometimes) hacking brusquely away at tasks immediately before him, was no man to waste time wondering whether he was building Utopia or merely providing material for a footnote on how two civilizations (and some threescore sovereignties) catastrophically clashed...