Word: utopian
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...that seems a Utopian ideal, it is nonetheless very much in the American spirit...
...large increase in room-and-board rates for off-campus students has created an unprecendented demand for private apartments and space in the cooperatives. By trying to solve these problems in a manner which will enhance the residential nature of Radcliffe, the college has come up with Utopian solutions which satisfy...
...foreign ideology, rebuilt it to suit their needs, and took over half the country. The Taipings came from the back country, not from the foreign trade centers. They began as a secret society with a cult, invoked the radical tradition in the Chinese classics, and sought a utopian collective or communal society, at one time even segregating the sexes. But the Taiping leaders were so dogmatic and doctrinaire that they alienated both the Chinese scholar class who might have helped them and the foreign merchants and missionaries who also might have helped them. Their simple fanaticism and xenophobia led them...
Part of his strength came from a sense of tradition rooted in his dissenting German-American ancestors, who were Utopian colonists, freethinkers, socialist craftsmen and abolitionists. The rest of it came from an indestructible innocence that helped him to survive bohemia's bad art, freewheeling sex and bogus labor evangelism. He did not renounce his old causes; the secular faith of socialism simply ran out on him. "The moral content of the old radical movement has vanished altogether," he writes today. "The classics of socialist and anarchist literature seem at mid-century to speak a foolish and naive language...
Where the utopian left felt more than a generalized mistrust of power, it objected to both the foreign and domestic policies of the administration. In foreign affairs, some regarded the cold war as the invention of the military-industrial complex and supposed that, if only Washington changed its course, Moscow and Peking would gladly collaborate in building a peaceful world...