Word: utopian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past five months these third-year men have been busy evolving their version of a Utopian Yard. Under the direction of Marcel Breuer, associate professor of Architecture, the revolutionary program started last October when eight idealists in Breuer's studio were given the task of redesigning specific buildings in the College...
...Many Girls" is a farce to end all farces. Drama may be the willing suspension of disbelief, but "Too Many Girls" asks you to suspend your sanity, too. But, aside from the plot, there is music, and songs, and sex a-plenty with a vagnely utopian college background. There is also a takeoff on a Harvard man which is too alarmingly accurate to be even slightly amusing...
Hence it is that our whole political philosophy is on the defensive. It is confronted by systems which silence competent criticism by violence and make utopian promises to precisely that section of the population which is least qualified to assess such promises at their proper value. The leaders of these systems have joined in a concerted attack upon those European nations, great and small, which had realized an ideal of personal and political freedom comparable with our own. They have demonstrated their intention to treat subject nations as servile inferiors, and have not hidden their contempt for the democratic processes...
...There are others who apparently envisage a society of a scholastic type. In their utopian state everyone, they believe, should receive an education at least the equivalent of the liberal arts colleges of four years. This seems to me both an undesirable and an impossible situation. It places altogether too high a value on academic life...
...hesitate-all of us-to proclaim . . . victory for the gods of force and hate would endanger the institutions of democracy in the Western World . . . the whole of our sympathies lie with those nations which are giving their life blood in combat against those forces." Ended was the Utopian hope that the U. S. could remain an island of democracy in a totalitarian world: "Such an island represents to me and to the overwhelming majority of Americans today a helpless nightmare of a people without freedom, a people lodged in prison, handcuffed, hungry, and fed through the bars from...