Word: utopian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacking such innocent clay-pigeons as the nobility or Oscar Wilde or Tennyson, Gilbert allows his tricky verses to bite into the touchy and important phases of modern life. The hypocrisy behind commercialism in modern government and behind sexual morality is hit hard in this work about a utopian isle that tries to become anglicized. The king sends his daughters to be schooled in England, and they return paragons of virtue, "Extremely modest (so we're told), Demurely coy--divinely cold." They bring with them six "flowers of progress," Englishmen representing their country's rise to perfection, and including...
...Utopian Ideal. Gompers had hoped to be succeeded by dapper Matthew Woll, then head of the tight little Photo-Engravers Union. But John L. Lewis opposed Woll. Lewis was also scheming to become Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of Labor. He wanted a quiet and friendly man as president of the federation. The big bloc of votes from the U.M.W., and the votes of other chieftains who wanted no interference with their own ambitions and intrigues, elected Green president of the A.F.L. Four days later, he enjoyed one of the big moments of his life-Coshocton welcomed him home with...
...pleaded for a Utopian ideal. "Capital," he said in 1926, "must yield in its hostility toward unions." At the same time, he denounced the British general strike of 1926 as a breach of inviolable contract. In friendly tones, he asked the automobile industry to hold still and let itself be organized. The answer came from Henry Ford: "I guess I can run my business without Bill Green's help...
...wish to become a literary lion. "Tell Thackeray," he wrote firmly to a friend at the age of 21, "that he is never to invite me to his house, as I never intend to go. ... I am going to become a great bear; and have got all sorts of Utopian ideas. . . . These may all be very absurd, but I try the experiment on myself, so I can do no great hurt...
...Utopian experiment consisted chiefly in following the Wordsworthian principles of "plain living and high thinking." Shunning his parents' wealthy house, FitzGerald rented a small cottage in Suffolk, where he lived for 16 years with a dog, a cat and a parrot. His staple diet was bread, fruit, cheese and fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr...