Word: utopias
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...this work of changing attitudes of gays and non-gays alike will take time. It is a slow, ongoing process. We cannot wait for utopia. We have to make our lives livable in the here...
...bitter truth? One cannot put the genie back into the bottle, beat plutonium into plowshares, or transform the Politburo and KGB into pacifists. Tragically, the idea whose time has come is the very idea of nuclear war. It can and should be postponed by deterrence, but it is sheer utopia to believe that there could never be a miscalculation...
...true mutual deterrence that Schell describes so well, the two countries have tried to stay well back from the brink, despite the many points of tension between them. In short, the choice facing mankind may be less stark, and less simple, than the one Schell gives us between Utopia and Armageddon...
...polemical, red-yellow-blue-gray-white-black, utterly incongruous against the florid décor of the 19th century. How could Europe produce the painting within 70 years or so of finishing the room? That in effect is the question posed by "De Stijl, 1917-1931: Visions of Utopia," an exhibition that opened last month at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and will go to Washington's Hirshhorn Museum later in the spring. Organized with exemplary intelligence by the Walker's design curator, Mildred Friedman, it brings together nearly 300 paintings, studies, items of furniture, sculpture, stained...
...Puttermesser and Xanthippe. The former is a lawyer in New York's department of receipts and disbursements; the latter a female golem, an artificial being that Puttermesser fashioned from potting soil. With Xanthippe's aid, the civil ser vant becomes mayor and turns the city into a Utopia. Unfortunately, it is the nature of golems to turn against their creators. Xanthippe plays a succubus, sleeps with every man in the administration, and the city returns to chaos...