Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits. It is a living, creative body...
...with getting a job done, attentive to down-to-earth detail, indifferent to dogma. "The short and sure road to despair and surrender is this," he wrote, "to believe that there is, somewhere, a scheme of things that will eliminate conflict, struggle, stupidity, cupidity, personal jealousy. The idea of Utopia is mischievous. as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is bom pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward...
Galt, the namesake of the club, is a fictional hero of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged who ran away from society to form his own "Utopia of Greed." Members of the Circle emphatically deny similar intentions, and said that the name was chosen because "Galt represents the principle of rational self-interest fundamental to objectivism...
...There is a real need for a centralized musical organization on the campus," said Timothy S. Mayer '66, president of HGSP and director of both The Three-penny Opera and of HGSP's last production, Utopia Limited. "HGSP is the only dramatic group on campus with sufficient human and physical resources to undertake a broad program of musical theatre...
With these improvements, Timothy S. Mayer's Utopia, Limited, will be close to perfect and I will have to go see it again...