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Word: utopia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most scientists are conscientious, hardworking people, well aware that it's here that the diseases kill, it's here that the ma!formed babies are born, it's here where man needs to center his efforts and thoughts, and not on some nebulous Utopia of an afterlife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1960 | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...Democratic Landslide: The election wiped me out. There wasn't anything left to talk about because we have Utopia. With Byrd, Eastland and Faubus, what can go wrong? Nelson Rockefeller: He is promising that if elected he will give the kids Little League polo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A SAHL'S-EYE VIEW:: A SAHL'S-EYE VIEW: The Unfabulous Fifties | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...brief question and answer period, he doubted the farsightedness of the current American disarmament position. "To want effective inspection systems," Morgenthau said, "is to desire a utopia or not to want disarmament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morgenthau Connects Disarmament With Solution of Political Conflicts | 8/4/1960 | See Source »

Some of these men (like Chester Bowles and John Kenneth Galbraith) helped to draft the Democratic platform, and occasionally the eloquence of their unhappiness gives the lie to the visions of mindless utopia cast by the rest of it. "We have drifted into a national mood that accepts payola and quiz scandals, tax evasion and false expense accounts. . . exploitation of sadistic violence as public entertainment," they tell us. The presence of these words in the platform implies that President Eisenhower's administration has been responsible for all these, just as Frank Church suggested in his keynote address that the Republicans...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Now the Democrats | 8/4/1960 | See Source »

...rates"), but then it goes on to call for a broad and costly expansion of federal services. And how are they to be paid for? In the real world, the answer would have to be either inflationary deficit spending or increased taxes, but in the platform's Utopia the Democrats propose to pay the added welfare costs by rubbing liberalism's newest Aladdin's lamp-the force-fed 5% economic growth rate (growth rate of the U.S. economy over the past half-century: 3%). Platform Committee Chairman Bowles admitted fortnight ago in Los Angeles that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PLATFORM: Rights of Man--1960 Style | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

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