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...opinion of the 16th century, as expressed by Robert Whytynton, has become the judgment of history: both in public achievement and private character, Sir Thomas was the greatest Englishman of his age. As a humanist and classical scholar, he ranked with Pico and Erasmus. As an author (Utopia), he became the first great social philosopher of the modern era. As a jurist, he was the brightest legal light of the realm. As a politician, he rose to the highest office in the King's gift: Lord Chancellor. As a Christian, he stood fast to his principles in the greatest...
...Fall of '64, for the gargantuan sum of $8000, Mayer had mounted a dazzling production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia, Limited on the Loeb mainstage. He lost no time getting to the vital center of HDC politics...
...esthetically expressed," says Cornell. They are self-inventories, cabinets into which he stuffs his own life. Now 62, he has always boxed himself into his own world. He has never been overseas, hardly ever wanders far from his white-shingled, blue-trimmed family house near the end of the Utopia Parkway in a quiet area of Queens in New York City. There he has lived since 1917, when, says he, "it was still Arcadia...
...moved swiftly to excise abuses. By contrast with the Peace Corps, which got one twenty-fifth as much funds in its first two years and operated mostly in areas remote from domestic scrutiny, the war on poverty has probably suffered most from President Johnson's hankering for Instant Utopia. "It's like we went down to Cape Kennedy," says Shriver, "and launched a half-dozen rockets at once...
Under a curtailed budget the Loeb would never again be able to underwrite anything as elaborate as last Fall's The Tempest or Utopia Limited the year before. A show requiring several complicated sets or expensive costuming could not be produced for $1700. This year, only the revived Leverett House operas were staged at the Loeb for less than that amount; in that instance money was saved because flats and costumes from the House production were used on the main stage...