Word: utopias
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...novelist's grandfather, was a solemn teacher, not a satirist. The result was that after the aldous Aldous had written Brave New World (a take-off on the sleek horrors of a mass-produced society), the new thomas-henrified Huxley deemed it his duty to map out a utopia for the betterment of the race...
Huxley's utopia is the island of Pala, whose happy inhabitants of mixed Indian, European and native descent have evolved a new form of Mahayanist Buddhism...
Dante's Inferno. For all its opulence and glamour, life in the big city is still a country mile from utopia. Rents are astronomical, and in New York, garaging a car can cost as much as $95 a month, without service. New York's subway system, which carries 4,600,000 passengers a day, often resembles something straight out of Dante's Inferno. A snowstorm that could be ignored or scoffed at elsewhere can paralyze a big city for days. Smog often covers Los Angeles, Chicago has its biting wind, and New York is covered...
...campaign workers last J. Rothstein '63, chairman Civil Rights Co-ordinating said that the Mansfield-Dirksen not a road to Utopia." But that the bill, which sixth-grade education will be to satisfy state literacy federal elections, is an step toward full political equal- Negroes...
...programmed (in his own image) a self-operating machine which is called fate and which actually runs the earth. The "tertiary spiritual leader" nominally responsible for the earth, the official locally designated "God," appears here as Nathan Weltschmertz, an amiable, blundering fellow whose ambition to realize a personal utopia the machine continually frustrates...