Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grand Utopia," the result of a partnership between the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) and the Busch-Reisinger. Silent films from the Soviet Union and posters from the October Revolution to the first Three-Year-Plan...
...Puritans meanwhile created a severe culture of practicality and moral rigor as they set out to build a virtuous Utopia in the wilds of the Northeast. What they wrought, Hughes says, has proved basic to how Americans view themselves even today. He visits the "Old Ship" meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts, a stripped-down, foursquare building that embodies the seriousness and urgency of Puritan life. Puritans were also fixated on death, and in a simple wooded cemetery Hughes discusses why gravestones were their only acceptable art form...
...than the relatively placid late '90s--just about any decade of this cataclysmic century would have. And maybe that's why the millennium already feels like a dud. Compared with where we've been these past hundred years, the new age seems to promise normality more than doom or utopia. Which isn't a bad thing--it just doesn't offer much prospect for funny cartoons, or riveting drama, or even, alas, spiffy office chairs...
Throughout all of anime, one senses a dark current coupled with lightness and comedy. There is a frustration with the progress of capitalism, but at the same time, fantasies portray its benefits. For instance, one finds a cautionary note about the human search for utopia in the movie "Appleseed", where a world programmed to be perfect through scientific advances becomes as much of a prison as the pre-utopia world of toil and strife...
...editorial that appeared in The Crimson last week extolled the virtues of Celebration, Florida (the "Disney Utopia"). Here's a response in lyrical format from the musical that I wrote with Adam J. Levitin '98 called "Small World Order," which opens at Loeb Ex on October 24. The premise is that Disney wouldn't have sunk $2 billion into Celebration unless it expected big returns-- say, national rule. Imagine Disney towns sprouting up all over the country...