It is precisely this sort of utopian thinking that touches off heart palpitations among the party's old guard, who may also suspect that they are fighting a rear-guard defense of ideology.

Its themes include utopian thinking, space travel, pop culture and American childhood, all viewed with an attitude of sunny despair (Cotter).

He called this mixed economic model "Mutualism", a term derived from French utopian socialist thinking.

Suffice it to say that utopian thinking, science, nature, pop culture and an American childhood are in the conceptual mix.

The painting indicates Berlin art's continuing attraction to utopian thinking and Russian Constructivism.

After all, wanting more is the basis for utopian thinking, a path toward dangerous social demands, even toward imagining the possibilities for altogether different social arrangements.

Is this utopian thinking? We shall see.

"Hitchcock and Johnson were wary of underscoring anything to do with utopian thinking," Mr. Bergdoll said.

Little wonder that younger artists in Latin America have a distrust of old-style utopian thinking.