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...note was signed by "UTOPIA", an anonymous group that has been leafleting the campus in recent weeks with posters threatening gays, Blacks and other minorities...
Robert N. Brooks, associate dean of students at UMass, yesterday described UTOPIA as an anti-gay "white supremacist military superiority group...
Michael said he received a second threat the next day, also signed by UTOPIA, which said he had "one week to live." The next appeared near his new room in a different dormitory, and it began "We know you've moved..." Michael has since been moved into another dormitory...
...buildings go up. Whole avenues seem to rise overnight, like sprouting plants in a time-lapse movie; status, constantly in flux, is one big slide area. With the action, there goes an equal ferment of fashion and criticism. Classical modernism is defended as archaeology and derided as a failed Utopia. In its place, though more visible on the drawing boards than the streets, there is something some observers have conveniently named "post-modernism." But is that a movement, a style or just a journalistic label? The walls of the labyrinth, made of paper as much as brick, shift and recompose...
...heritage was cast away for a mess of ideological pottage, cooked up in the Bauhaus by various Germans and mittel Europeans under the sway of Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. This wholly alien style-monastic, severe, technology obsessed and full of socialist implications, smelling of Utopia and garlic-was brought to America, a country that (as Wolfe argues in one of his more dizzying transports of sociological fancy) had no need for worker housing and was therefore ill-fitted...