Word: utopian
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...only a sugar-coated romance ; actually, it was propaganda for a Socialist Utopia. Among those who have acknowledged its influence on their thinking have been Mark Twain, William Dean Ho wells, George Bernard Shaw, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, William Allen White, Eduard Benes. Unlike most Utopian outlines, Looking Backward presented a concrete program for the modern world...
...lived long enough with Henry Wallace and Cordell Hull to know that they do not share the same ideas. These speeches made them wonder whether they shared the same world. For Mr. Hull's cautious appeal for international law seemed irrelevant to Mr. Wallace's huge Utopian dreams. The President, as the main foreign policy maker, would have to spread himself to join these disparate views in one Democratic Party program for foreign policy...
Even two years ago such a venture would still have been visionary and Utopian; but today the tremendous wartime expansion of American aviation makes it possible to fly TIME'S pictures and pages 2,500 air miles across the continent from Philadelphia to San Francisco and then 2,350 miles on out across the Pacific to Hawaii in less than 36 hours...
...which it lost $20 million in the seven years from 1934 through 1940. The Long Island states its case with complete candor. Its open books show that the railroad has avoided bankruptcy only through credits totaling $9.3 million from its rich parent, the Pennsylvania. Thus the promise of Utopian commuter service on the 364-mile Long Island is hedged with two provisos: 1) a 20% fare increase for 55 million commuters, which White recommended; 2) easing of the crushing property taxes levied against the railroad by local governments and used in part to build superhighways and extend subway services that...
...Utopian in this life of own however, for some of the crew has tasted the bitter fruits of discipline. There is no excuse to let down in any phase of our life here at Briggs, but occasionally we have to be reminded that there is a penalty for returning late from leave that even the best of WAVES may be good housekeepers in the eyes of the Navy, and that we "can be wrong" and often tool...