Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buildings go up. Whole avenues seem to rise overnight, like sprouting plants in a time-lapse movie; status, constantly in flux, is one big slide area. With the action, there goes an equal ferment of fashion and criticism. Classical modernism is defended as archaeology and derided as a failed Utopia. In its place, though more visible on the drawing boards than the streets, there is something some observers have conveniently named "post-modernism." But is that a movement, a style or just a journalistic label? The walls of the labyrinth, made of paper as much as brick, shift and recompose...
Last week, the campus of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst was leafletted by posters proclaiming a rally for "Utopia," a previously unknown organization. They declared among their goals the elimination of the Third World Students newspaper, the establishment of white supremacy and ridding the campus of "Chinks, Gooks and Niggers." The rally was scheduled for the same afternoon the posters appeared. The University administration issued a statement that any students attending the Utopia rally would be arrested on the spot. Progressive student organizations immediately organized a counter-demonstration to the Utopian rally: three hundred people attended. Subsequently...
...insincere, then watch for a few speaking tours in the New Hampshire region sometime during 1986. What he appeals to is common sense. Surely, he implores, you can all see what your stubborness is doing. Work together and we may not have a utopia, but at least we'll have something. "The world can survive," he intones, "only if we do. It's about time we confronted the future with confidence by adopting solutions that represent neither the past nor blind dogma." Which would be fine if Tsongas had some new solutions; all he can suggest is the blending...
...colleges, one hospital and almost 30,000 jobs, Columbia has five self-sufficient village centers, each made up of three or four neighborhoods. The city's population is about 20% black. "Columbia works," says Rouse, who lives in a low, modern home there. "It's not some half-baked Utopia. It makes good use of the land?hell, 30% of Columbia is park land...
Regarding the Summer Times "Spartacists Struggle for Utopia...