Word: utopias
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...President Clinton won't bring utopia. Four years from now, every day won't be sunny, every street won't be free of crime, every home won't be prosperous...
...rhetorical question and the impersonal pronoun disguise one's uneasiness with the subject, a fear of sounding effete about dishware? Why doesn't the Design Collection have any beer mugs on display? Is the form art-proof by definition? Is some wine-bound snobbery at work, even in utopia?" But you forgive the prof, `cause, ya know, this education thing is an uphill climb. A spoonful of sugar helps the culture go down, and, fortunately for us, Alfred Appel Jr. is as hopeful as the modernist masters he celebrates...
...century, when conventional wisdom foresaw ever greater prosperity and ease. Jules Verne invented science fiction in the 1860s with his tales of space flight and submarine voyage, and the American Edward Bellamy, in his widely read 1888 novel Looking Backward, imagined Boston around the year 2000 as a genteel Utopia where everyone enjoys equal pay and crime has all but disappeared...
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...authored a number of books, includingAfter Utopia (1957), Legalism(1963), Men and Citizens (1969), Freedomand Independence (1976), Ordinary Vices(1984) and Montesquieu (1987). In addition,several collections of her lectures have beenpublished...