Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make it hard were the two forces that explained the past and propelled history. Environment, as in Darwin, was made up of things . . . man responded like a machine, and out of this same physical necessity ... a perfected society was produced. History was a sieve that worked. The proletarian Utopia was the residue...
WHERE ANGELS DARED TO TREAD -V. F. Calverton-Bobbs-Merrill ($3). Essays on 20-odd (of some 200) North American tries at Utopia which the late V. F. Calverton regarded as most significant. His report is uneven, and his data sketchy but fascinating. His evidence shows that: 1) Many Utopias succeeded until they knuckled their ideals under. 2) The most successful were religious, not scientific, communisms. 3) The destiny of most was determined by the hypnotic influence of an inspired-or maniacal-leader, and changed with his death. 4) Not one dared to meet sexual problems pointblank; even bold Oneida...
...Utopia Undone. Commanding officer at Fort Bragg, N. C. is Major General Jacob Loucks Devers. Until last September his post was the peaceful habitat of some 5,000 field artillerymen. Aside from more or less perfunctory summer maneuvers, nothing much ever happened at Fort Bragg to disturb the routine of life in the hand some brick barracks, the pleasant officers' quarters, the not-so-pleasant, ramshackle quarters for noncoms. Some of the men at Fort Bragg had been there since World War I, hoped to die there. Older officers thought highly of Bragg as a quiet place to pass...
Last September, this military Utopia ended with a bang. Fort Bragg was to be turned into a training centre for 67,000 men: the job had to be completed in six and a half months. Army quartermasters, civilian contractors, 30,000 Tarheel work men moved in to construct 2,562 new buildings, 93 miles of paved roads, 75 miles of water mains, 60 miles of sewer lines, an 8,000,000-gallon (per day) water system, 60 miles of electric power lines, other huge essentials. The cantonment would be North Carolina's third largest city. By last week...
...raid drew attention to the New Leader's main claim to distinction-as bellwether for exile and native anti-Communists in the U. S. Among them: Willi Schlamm, leader at 16 of the Austrian Communist Party, one of the first to break with Stalin; Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia); the late General Walter Krivitsky. For Editor Riesel these characteristic contributors afforded a probable reason for the visit: Communist footpads were looking for the address of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Jan Valtin, ex-Communist author of Out of the Night, currently best-selling Baedeker of the Stalinist underworld...