Word: utopian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reactions encourages him to write a book about his discovery of the world of 2040, for the guidance of the seven other antiques when they wake up. It is, of course, quite a beautiful world-though enough human traits are still in evidence to keep it from being completely Utopian...
...that time the Nature religion of the French enlightenment was strong in men like Jefferson and Madison, the Baptists and Presbyterians were settling the frontier. Bates gives a clear account of these and other sects, of the political forms that grew from their beliefs and necessities, of the Utopian demo cratic optimism shown in the Shaker communes and Brook Farm experiments of the early 19th Century. His book closes with the Civil...
...leftist magazines like The Nation and The New Republic, lectured, presided over round-table discussions, was chairman of a Southern committee to study lynching. Long an admirer of Nebraska's Senator George Norris, Milton plugged for the Tennessee Valley Authority when it was no more than a Utopian gleam in Papa Norris...