Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposing schools of psychology will clash on the subject of "Utopia" tonight in Harvard 6 when Henry David Aiken '40, associate professor of Philosophy, and Burrhus Frederick Skinner '31, professor of Psychology, speak under the auspices of the Students' Association for the Natural and Social Sciences...
Basis for the discussion will be Skinner's recent book, "Walden Two," in which the author portrays a Utopia with psychologists as the leading figures in the community. Skinner is associated with the "human behavior" theory of psychology...
...first blush, it was hard to believe that there could be much wrong with life in Richland, Wash., the Atomic Energy Commission's model residential city for the big Hanford Plutonium Works. Its 24,000 residents seemed to live in an atomic-age Utopia. With no effort from them, Government planning had methodically channeled the city's burgeoning population into neatly curving rows of comfortable frame houses. Sputtering Government sprinklers had drawn green grass from the arid Columbia River basin in defiance of the gritty desert winds from the Horse Heaven Hills...
Born. To Dorothy Lamour (nee Slater), 34, cinema sarongstress and leading lady to Hope and Crosby (Road to Utopia, Road to Morocco, etc.), and second husband William Ross Howard III, 42, wartime A.A.F. major now an advertising executive: their second child, second son; in Los Angeles. Name: Richard Thompson. Weight...
...Havre for New Orleans with a mixed human cargo. Of its 180 passengers, 60 were ordinary German immigrants, 80 were pre-Marxist communists who called themselves Icarians, and the other 40 were communists who called themselves Trappist monks. The Icarians were coming to the U.S. to build a materialist Utopia, the Trappists to build a monastery where they could contemplate God. The last Icarian Utopia, at Cloverdale, Calif., fizzled out in 1895. Today in the U.S., there are six Trappist monasteries where some 500 monks dwell "above the" terrors and sor rows of modern life as well as above...