Word: utopia
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Maybe some were tricked into coming out West, goaded on by the same visions of utopia that I was. Or maybe some were here before the gold rush, saw the roller-coaster ride pass them by and now are just trying to pick up the pieces. Or at least trying to understand why they couldn’t have been one of the lucky few to make it big. What really matters, though—and what is so easy to overlook—is no one party or group is to blame: everyone here probably had something...
...principles of eugenics. The decision savors of Vichy. The court's logic-which is the true deformity-would encourage wholesale prenatal slaughter. It stigmatizes the handicapped and states, as a principle of law, that they never should have been born. Such children are an error that would, in the utopia toward which the idealism of the law aspires, be eliminated, pre-emptively...
...Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, Ursula K. Le Guin '51 describes a man's uneasy journey from his home world of Annares to the nearby Urras. The protagonist travels from an anarchist society where all is shared to a world of sharp class distinction--and finds perfection in neither...
Beginning unassumingly, with the two characters laying in bed, Ancient History is a play that asks what exactly comprises the ideal relationship and demonstrates how even the most perfect romantic utopia can fall apart within minutes. Presented by the Adams House Theater Society, Ancient History mixes the genres of drama and comedy into...
...UTOPIA LTD., or THE FLOWERS OF PROGRESS...