Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the lightning struck. In the Daily Worker, Browder was bitterly attacked by his onetime mentor-mild-mannered, 64-year-old William Z. Foster, old-line radical, thrice the Communist candidate for President of the U.S. Foster branded the No. 1 U.S. Communist an evangelist for a "capitalist Utopia." He added: "Such national unity, based on class peace with the monopolists, would be a first-class disaster to the workers...
...only dependable man in the Utopia was Grandfather Bucklin, a rangy 88-year-old who strode the porch in a bathrobe and forbade the children to utter a word. Right after Grandfather Bucklin's funeral, the hitherto-speechless Aleck burst into a torrent of verbiage that left his mother speechless with admiration. It is no wonder, says Biographer Adams, that Woollcott grew into "a devoted crusader for free speech and independent thought...
...escapist Utopias that mush roomed in the shadow of the industrial revolution. Father Rapp's was the least suggestive of milk & honey. His first ven ture was in Germany. The spiritual leader of a flock of phlegmatic German peasants, Peasant Rapp was a mystic with a sound business head. In 1804 he brought his peo ple to the U.S. ''not because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists...
...advertisement in the London Times offering a town for sale, he "saw, beyond the rolling seas, the promise of America, a place where there would be an end to the concocting of holy lies." He gathered a group of disciples and sailed to the Utopia vacated by George Rapp...
Profits were ½? a peg, paid by the Marine Corps. It furnished the lumber; heat, light, power and rent were supplied by the prison, all free. Hundreds of fellow convicts were hired by the convict capitalists for as little as 40? a day. In this capitalistic Utopia, with no overhead, the pegs rolled out, the profits rolled in. There was only one catch; the four hobby shop owners are serving life terms for murder...