Citations:Usonia

English citations of Usonia

Noun: The United States

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• 1904, Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers' Journal, page 188:

  A short time ago the papers were considerably agitated over changing the name of the United States to Usonia.

• 1922, Esperanto Association of North America, L'Amerika Esperantisto, pages 8–9:

  Cambridge 38, Mass., Usonia, […] 946 Central Ave., San Francisco, Calif., Usonia, […]

• 1936 (2000), John Dos Passos, The Big Money, page 344:

  Usonia he calls the broad teeming band of this new nation […]

• 1943, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography:

  The tinkle of the cow-bell has steadily called the boys of Usonia. (p. 25)
  Soviet Russia and Usonia are capable of perfect understanding and sympathy. (p. 544)

• 1978, Reino Virtanen, Frans Amelinckx, Joyce Megay, Travel, quest, and pilgrimage as a literary theme, page 21:

  "No human group is so adequately prepared to innovate. . . .Usonia is the land where personal merit is most highly valued. . . .

• 1982, Jackson Mac Low, “Central America”, in From Pearl Harbor Day to FDR's Birthday:

  "Sing Goddess of the centrality of America / of the nation called Usonia / by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright // Manhattan Shirts went south / from Usonia to El Salvador / leaving here in the North / plenty of shirtmakers jobless // [...] Salvadorans make them now / and ship them to Usonia // No wonder in El Salvador / [...] / the government of Usonia / all but functions as the state /

• 1990, William Boelhower, The future of American modernism: ethnic writing between the wars:

  As semiotic vector this topological trans is nothing other than Grant's historiographic rite of passage across the polyglot space of Usonia.

• 2002, Rick London, Leslie Scalapino, Abigail Child, Basta assez enough, page 141:

  Usonia has a big backyard / from Laredo to Tierra del Fuego / and everything that happens there / is part of Usonia's business / […]

• 2003, José F. Buscaglia-Salgado, Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean:

  Through this authorial tandem the distance between Enlightened Usonia and Inquisitorial Spain is closed in the text (p. 3)
  This is the moment when Columbus is finally consecrated and enters the pantheon of the Founding Fathers of Usonia (p. 25)
  In postrevolutionary Usonia, as the United States began to set its sights on China, […] (p. 273)

Noun: Wright's utopia

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• 1997, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, David Larkin, Frank Lloyd Wright: Master Builder, page 102:

  The word "Usonia" first appears in Wright's writings in 1925.

• 1985, Robert Harris Walker, Reform in America, page 145:

  Frank Lloyd Wright, on the other hand, was willing to take what he found best in rural and urban America and combine it into a national utopia called Broadacre City (or, sometimes, Usonia).

• 1985, August William Derleth, August Derleth, John Steuart Curry, The Wisconsin, River of a Thousand Isles, page 307:

  In his seventies now, he works to perfect plans for Usonia — no Utopian conception, but a strictly practical concept

• 1993, Alvin Rosenbaum, Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Design for America:

  How Wright's concepts for a better way of American living failed and succeeded, and how Usonia was realized in expected and unexpected ways

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• 1994, Ronald M. Radano, Anthony Braxton, New Musical Figurations, page 85, footnote 23:

  Musicians' efforts to establish their own performance forums date back to Earl Hines and Louis Armstrong, who briefly opened a dance hall, the Usonia, in Chicago in 1927.