Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Marshall's proposals represent an example of the correct approach to the problem of making the U. N. a more effective agency. The recommendations, even if not accepted, will serve to focus attention on the continuing task of maintaining the peace. A sudden leap into Utopia is not to be expected. Even gradual change will not be effected without a good deal of inflammatory debate. But the gradual approach, however discouraging and unproductive it may appear at times, is the approach that in the long run will yield results. Prophets of doom who insist that the only salvation...
...Party. After praising his own government's efforts to establish social and economic security, the P.M. said: "Let me warn you to beware of change just for the sake of change; or what, in national affairs, is even more dangerous, against accepting at its face value any untried Utopia, or any proclaimed panacea for social ills...
...simple instincts of people with the taboos and sophistries of social custom. In The Machine Stops-written as "a counterblast to one of the heavens of H. G. Wells"-he describes a world of push-button perfection in which men have lost their souls. Says one inhabitant of this Utopia under the surface of the earth: "Those funny old days, when men went for a change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!" But when another character gets a brief look at the earth's surface, with all its imperfections, he sums up the Forsterian point...
What Was the Name? Leonard Lyons spent a nostalgic week among his souvenirs. Samples: Elisabeth Bergner had once read Lennie's horoscope; Iturbi had paid Lennie a backhanded compliment; Randy Churchill had paid him a small bet. People were always confusing Lennie Lyons with Eugene (Assignment in Utopia) Lyons, but that was no worry any longer because only one of them was still a celebrity. And once a mutual friend was telling a Zurich innkeeper about Lennie. The innkeeper had never heard of "one of America's most important journalists?" Point of the anecdote: the fellow was obviously...
Spelling Proudhon backwards, Bourin created his own Utopia at Fresnes prison (near Paris), during the months before his trial. It was called the Republic of Fresnes; other inmates of the prison held leading cabinet posts. The list of portfolios, as it came to light in court last week, included the Ministries of Catastrophes, Redundant Absurdities, Pots of Wine, the Budget & Squaring the Circle, Dangerous Initiatives, Counterfeit Money, Expediency, Peeling of Oranges and Violation of Nuns...