At the beginning some modernists fostered a utopian spirit, stimulated by innovations in anthropology, psychology, philosophy, political theory, physics and psychoanalysis.

But despite the work's utopian, change-the-world spirit, this was pretty much in-group stuff not meant for a wide audience.

The endowment began in 1965 as part of the same Great Society enterprise that declared war on poverty; that utopian spirit still characterizes its defense.

The Taller was established in Mexico City in 1937 in the continuing utopian social spirit of the 1910 revolution.

But in time-honored utopian spirit, it also gives pure, heart-lifting pleasure, as its broad central staircase ascends skyward to a spectacular view of New York Harbor.

Mr. Singer urged a return to the utopian spirit of 1968 and "the contemptuous dynamism of youth."

He was already engaged with a very post-modern set of concerns, yet he approached them with a utopian spirit that the art world left behind in the 1970's.

Yet Mr. Gelabert is clearly reluctant to relinquish the utopian spirit associated with these symbols.