Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded like a foolproof formula: "We have to finish the war. We have to bring the men home. We have to get our dear country on the move again and into its full swing of natural health and life." The Conservatives would promise no "easy, cheap-jack Utopia of airy phrases . . .windy platitudes." For Britons in & out of uniform, weary of restriction and regulation, the Party offered "a large release from the necessary bonds and controls which war conditions have imposed...
...readable novel which was also one of the most influential books in U.S. history. Published in 1888, it sold slowly for a year, then suddenly caught on and shortly sold over a million copies. Looking Backward seemed only a sugar-coated romance ; actually, it was propaganda for a Socialist Utopia. Among those who have acknowledged its influence on their thinking have been Mark Twain, William Dean Ho wells, George Bernard Shaw, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, William Allen White, Eduard Benes. Unlike most Utopian outlines, Looking Backward presented a concrete program for the modern world...
Author Barzun has little indeed to say about Education, i.e., the vast, vague "phantasmagoria," the "sulphur-and-brimstone nebula," the "overheated Utopia" that is popularly expected to "make the City of God out of Public School No. 26." But about Teaching he says plenty. His brisk, irreverent, earnest book will ventilate a good many stuffy rooms in the U.S. schoolhouse...
...Collier has indignantly stood out against the prevailing U.S. opinion that the Indians are not only shiftless ne'er-do-wells but also a decadent, dying race. A visit to the Pueblos in New Mexico in 1920 ("The first time I ever came face to face with a Utopia") made him decide to fight for the Indian's right to keep his old life and culture...
William Henry Chamberlin is a scholarly author whose twelve years (1922-34) as the Christian Science Monitor's Moscow correspondent changed him from an ardent admirer of Communism into a disillusioned critic (Collectivism-A False Utopia). This week, writing in Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, he gave his verdict on the significance of the Browder-Hillman campaign for Term IV, Said...