Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John A. Lithgow '67, and Janet Walker also sang a tune from G & S's Utopia Limited, with words amended for the occasion by Timothy S. Mayer '66. As an introduction they sang...
Sure Touch. Precisely how the U.S. was to achieve this Utopia, Johnson never spelled out in detail. Nevertheless, it was with that pronouncement that he launched his campaign for election. It was a campaign that never succeeded in rising above the promise of a dream...
Venal Men. Thus Carlos Fuentes, an able and eloquent novelist, though not a subtle one, passionately expounds the dominant Marxist line: the failure of the Mexican Revolution to produce a socialist Utopia must be laid to venal men who betrayed it to capitalist thieves and their attendant priests and police...
...Dutch art movement, whose standard-bearer was Piet Mondrian, made more than rules for good design. It was a heavily Platonic philosophy of art, carried out in mighty Pythagorean paintings, that saw pure beauty as the universal means of reaching Utopia. Wrote Mondrian: "Abstract art is opposed to the raw primitive animal nature of man, but it is one with true human nature...
Lakoff also criticized Negroes such as the Black Muslims for their "utopian fantasies." They want "utopia now rather than a change in their position in real life," he said...