Citations:polytopian

English citations of polytopian

[1988, Wayne C[layson] Booth, The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967–1988, Chicago, I.L., London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, pages 328 and 333:
I happen to have just returned this week from a visit fifty years forward, and I have brought back a little history, published by the press of a university that occupies precisely our present site (not a single new building!). It calls itself, however, the University of Polytopia—not Utopia, no-place, but Polytopia, many places. […] Everyone reading this report today will know that we have not discovered, in all this innovation, any easy, cheerful harmony. New and seemingly irreconcilable differences have turned up as we have faced hitherto-unsuspected problems. And it is easy for us now, though it was hard for scholars back in 1987, to see the grand difference between our polytopian achievement and their utopian dreams.]