Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign workers last J. Rothstein '63, chairman Civil Rights Co-ordinating said that the Mansfield-Dirksen not a road to Utopia." But that the bill, which sixth-grade education will be to satisfy state literacy federal elections, is an step toward full political equal- Negroes...
...programmed (in his own image) a self-operating machine which is called fate and which actually runs the earth. The "tertiary spiritual leader" nominally responsible for the earth, the official locally designated "God," appears here as Nathan Weltschmertz, an amiable, blundering fellow whose ambition to realize a personal utopia the machine continually frustrates...
...gain them a long and fearful exploitation of an oppressed, hungry people seems a necessity. In their pursuance, as well, the Chinese people will be denied the invaluable help of reflecting upon their rich and noble past or upon any form of spiritual and moral ideals. The Chinese Communist "utopia" that may form, needless to say, will be void of any expression of human dignity...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt. "Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own," wrote Shakespeare in Henry V. The subject in A Man for All Seasons is Sir Thomas More, 16th century wit, lawyer, scholar, author (Utopia), Lord Chancellor of England, and Christian martyr. The King is Henry VIII, who had Sir Thomas beheaded when More-in denying the King's right to divorce Queen Catherine and marry Anne Boleyn-refused to sign an oath proclaiming the King supreme ruler of the church. More did not choose to lose...
...establishing his utopia, man is hindered by "the human body itself, which is in a certain sense 25 to 50 thousand years out of date," he said. Man's instincts concerning eating, sex, and aggression were necessary thousands of years ago, but today these drives are harmful...