Word: utopian
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...citizen who drives his private car through Orthodox districts on the holy day is apt to hear an outraged cry of "Sabbath" from the curb. Yet the prevailing spirit in Israel remains the old-fashioned buoyancy of 19th century Zionist Socialism, with all its emphasis on sentimental nationalism, Utopian pioneering of the land, and a generous belief in the nature of man. Israel's 300,000 elementary-school children attend either religious or "general" schools. In the one case they learn the Bible as God's Word, in the other more as folk literature. But always it remains...
Boiled down, what you say about the Fund for the Republic [Nov. 28] means that its $15 million is being thrown in big chunks to Utopian-minded eggheads who are greatly concerned about our civil liberties but are not concerned about stopping Communism...
Considering that the Mau Mau shooting war is still on, and that Kenya's black v. white feeling runs high, the Royal Commission's report had a Utopian and distant sound about it. The diehard majority of British settlers is sure to oppose it, and to try to sabotage any attempt at implementation; the settlers can say, with reason, that conditions for peaceful transfer of land between races do not now exist. But some day soon in darkest East Africa, a start must somehow be made; something new must be offered the Africans in place of blood-cults...
...bomb, and the atomic arms race began, he lent his prestige to almost any ban-the-bomb society that asked his sponsorship. Einstein's otherworldliness grew more pronounced. "The wish to withdraw into myself," he wrote, "increases with the years." But though his political forays were often Utopian, his scientific imagination still soared. He had unified the concepts of space and time, matter and energy, gravitation and inertia, yet two great cosmic forces, gravitation and electromagnetism, still defied his synthesis...
...privilege of living in one of the New Deal's three Government-owned utopian "planned communities," residents had to do much of the planning themselves. Abraham Chasanow, a $1,800-a-year clerk in the Navy's Hydrographic Office, found this out soon after he moved his family into a six-room, $36.50-a-month row house in Greenbelt, Md. in 1939. For 13 years Chasanow worked hard at his civic responsibilities. His hard work eventually led to serious trouble: last July the Navy suspended him as a suspected security risk. Chasanow, now 43, decided to fight...