Word: utopian
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...dilemma that is not confined to France or to French intellectuals. He stubbornly clings to the conviction that man is the measure of all things-the sentimental tradition of the Enlightenment. But he is far too intelligent and sensitive to accept the Enlightenment's shallow optimism and Utopian illusions about the human condition. On the other hand, he cannot move in the opposite direction towards religion. He is frozen midway. He accepts the Christian insight into the nature of evil, but rejects the rest of Christian theology. Every line of his book argues the need for religion...
...tasks with a valor, pride and gallantry that is found only in the revolutionary traditions of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Then, as their strength was exhausted in the battle against modern steel, the fight was taken over by the stolid nerveless men of the factories, inspired by Utopian ideals of a democratic workers' state. The Man of the Year was an amalgam of all these men and of all their qualities...
...South Seas, worked as a war correspondent when wars were available and marched with "Kelley's Army" (a Western version of Coxey's Army). Somewhere along the line he added Nietzsche to his intellectual portage. In all he wrote, the notion of Superman was muddled with the Utopian apocalypse of Marx -in about the same proportions in which history for the next two generations would muddle Fascism and Communism...
...said that several implications would follow from this Utopian set-up: A great variety of professors would be able to lecture in such an institution, including agnostics and atheists. They would be able to "emulate the spirit of freedom" present in the rest of the University, he maintained...
...Delegate Harold Stassen and his government the Anglo-French scheme appeared to overlook the fact that it would be far more useful to start even a limited measure of actual disarmament than to get general agreement on a Utopian overall blueprint. Emphasizing this, Stassen a fortnight ago proposed that the subcommittee agree at once on a series of small but eminently practical "confidence-building" steps toward disarmament, including the opening by both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. of experimental disarmament inspection zones (TIME, April 2). Last week he made another specific proposal: international control centers to which all major powers would...