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...cars and chauffeurs attached to government agencies and factories are a nagging reminder to more austere party men that their Communist "utopia" is far from classless. In fact, the party press has reported that, proportionately, more middle-level executives are entitled to chauffeur-driven cars in Socialist countries than in the West. Government ministers and factory managers in each of the East European countries fight constantly to enlarge their own pool of cars. They ride in everything from Fiat 600s to Russian Moskvichi, but favor the big and prestigious German Mercedes...
...goal of Hope and Crosby seemed to be to step on each other's lines, and the script was a dead letter. Once, when the writer happened onto the set, Hope called: "If you hear any of your own dialogue, yell bingo." A typical exchange, from Road to Utopia -Lamour: "You're facetious." Hope: "Keep politics out of this." Yet by 1962, when the great chase and all the hokey detours finally ended with The Road to Hong Kong, the seven Road shows had grossed over $50 million...
Dancing on the Greensward. When Morris died in 1896 at 62, almost his last words were: "I want to get mum-bo-jumbo out of the world." He had put a good deal into it. His vision of a materialist Utopia with an art-craft peasantry, and Morris himself dancing on the greensward, bordered on the ridiculous. The masterpiece printed by his Kelmscott Press was a massive edition of Chaucer, illustrated by himself and the painter Burne-Jones. It cost ? 20- probably the equivalent of a half-year's wages of one of the men who toiled...
...British new towns are a long, long way from Utopia. But some of the revolutionary ideas that are making the new towns will not doubt pan out. Meanwhile, the new towners are living in nicer homes and enjoying more community facilities than they ever would have dreamed possible. Even the conflicts between new towners, Old Skelmers, and corporation executives seem small in some perspectives. One event, for example, brought the whole town resoundingly together--Skelm's climb to the amateur soccer final at Wembley
...Western Europe (this is the first to appear in the U.S.), seems to suggest that modern technological man has lost meaningful continuity with the broader patterns of human destiny. Yanovsky puts force into this familiar proposition by his crisp, evocative writing and the persuasive allure of his slightly disturbing Utopia. At the end, he sends Cornelius back to the village to take up life there as if he had never left. It is a neat finish for his tale, but, alas, he has left the reader no road map to that village...