Word: utopian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yield to coaxing, the clutch must be pushed down and let up, the foot accelerator released and pressed down again and the shift lever wiggled about delicately. In addition to causing heavy wear on the parts, all this diddling is a great nuisance to the driver, who in a Utopian state of locomotion would be concerned with only two things: 1) to make the car go at desired speed, 2) to make the car stop when necessary. What the world needs, in short, is an easygoing, shiftless automobile...
...more abusive of Bruce Barton's critics can never have read a word he wrote. If they had, they would know that-victim of cliches though he is, Utopian and ambrosial though his visions become and offensive though it seems of him to announce his views as "heresy of the first order"?he is not an unctuous man. He is a clear-headed businessman and pretends to be nothing else; nothing mystical, nothing superior to others...
...particularly gratified by the picture on page 57, foreshadowing with its theatre-full of policemen some Utopian form of city government under which policemen should be admitted free to theatres as they now are to street-cars and peanut-stands...
...Although our policy is not 'pacifist' in the Utopian sense of the word, it is essentially 'pacific...
...college. Our Puritan ancestors, who wanted their colleges organized as Roman, Republics in order that the classical experience might be relived by the boys in their teens, have had their way in many respects. The American college town is a commonwealth, the living conditions in which are quite as Utopian as Comenjus and his friends could have desired. The college is free from taxation and from practically all obitgation to serve the community in any way. Its conditions of residence permit a twenty-four hour control of the life of its citizens and the almost total absence of external criticism...