Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smoothly. With the men busy knocking down walls and building new ones. Nowak exercises a firm yet detached control over them. An amusingly ironic scene comes early on, when the men pay their first visit to the rather seedy local supermarket. Their eyes light up responding to the seeming utopia and their hands push the empty shopping carts with clumsy eagerness. The suspicious glances of the shoppers and salespeople, the sudden arrest of a shoplifter the clicking video cameras at every aisle--all combine into a grosteque echo of a totalitarian state...
Eventually, Mudd embraces the city as a potential Utopia. Unlike Wordworth and his sister, who conclude that hell is life on earth, Mudd says it contains all the promise of heaven. In "Searching for the Queen of Angels," the poet actually finds the queen of angels--of says he does. His queen is the same as that of Williams, who writes in Paterson. "Say it, no ideas but in thing." Mudd's entire reason for living is the city's vigor the singular relish humanity takes in its own creations, Eventually, paradise can come on earth. Odes have been written...
McDaniel agreed with Bradley's bill but warned the crowd that the complexities of the system will remain, adding, we will not active at utopia...
...idea that education has a basically social purpose derives more or less from Plato. In his Republic, the philosopher portrayed a Utopia governed by an intellectual elite specially trained for that purpose. This form of education was both stern and profoundly conservative. Children who attempt innovations, warned Socrates, acting as Plato's narrator, will desire a different sort of life when they grow up to be men, with other institutions and laws. And this "is full of danger to the whole state." To prevent any innovations, Socrates forthrightly demanded censorship so that students could not "hear any casual tales...
...Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest veers toward an ecumenical humanism; the Marxist sighs for a materialistic Utopia. They agree only about the culture that confronts them. Says Quixote: "It's an absurd world or we wouldn't be here together...