Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shadows Move Among Them, by Edgar Mittelh¨olzer. Uninhibited high jinks about a highly nonconformist pastor in British Guiana, somewhat befogged by the suggestion that it all adds up to ethical Utopia (TIME, Sept...
...notion of a Golden Age. We who were born about 1900 remember that span of security. We who lived through the late '20s and early '30s, the liberal movements, were filled with a notion that if we strained and strained and strained we would pretty soon usher in a Utopia. These young have not that impatience. They have not that regret. It is not a matter of disillusion nor does it mean that they are indifferent to social betterment...
...notion of a Golden Age. We who were born about 1900 remember that span of security. We who lived through the late '20s and early '30s, the liberal movements, were filled with a notion that if we strained and strained and strained we would pretty soon usher in a Utopia. These young have not that impatience. They have not that regret. It is not a matter of disillusion nor does it mean that they are indifferent to social betterment...
Hong Kong is the neutral way station, the communications center, for almost any traveler, whatever his mission, who skirts the edge of China or passes through Mao's bamboo curtain. Onto the British-held island and peninsula pour refugees from the Communist Utopia-in-reverse, agents and opportunists playing their own cautious angles; through its postage-stamp airfield and its busy railway station pass most of the diplomats who scuttle to & from Peking; from its shrewd businessmen go goods for Communist buyers; out of its newsstands and radio sets gush reams and hours of words from...
...Native Souvenirs. How Fisby got around the Purdy plan and built himself a miniature Utopia full of happy Okinawans is the story of Vern Sneider's nimble novel. An Army veteran with Okinawa service, Sneider has written a shrewd fantasy about the American in the uncomfortable role of conqueror...