Word: utopian
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...Little Sisters run the fine $1,000,000 Burtha M. Fisher Home, given by one of the famed, pious seven Fisher (bodies) brothers and his wife. Archbishop Edward Mooney said of the sisters: "They teach us, and they have taught us for 100 years, that the Gospel is not Utopian; that if you build charity on faith and hope, it works...
Last year Utopian Economist Stuart Chase, having discovered the 16-year-old science of semantics (the study of meanings), rushed off to write a book, The Tyranny of Words, whose point was in substance that if everybody used the right words, all misunderstandings and muddled thinking would evaporate and many of the world's ills would be cured. Last week Stuart Chase was again discovered playing his word game...
Concluded Planner Neylan: "Any suggestion which does not fit in with the conventional jargon of diplomats and the sabre-rattling of those who will not be in the front line trenches will be considered bizarre and Utopian...
...Hicks emphasized the importance of the work done by Morris in the Social Democratic Federation. Adopting an unpopular cause, he influenced many of his contemporaries although he won few disciples. Throughout his books there is strong practical middle class streak which keeps him from becoming a typical radical utopian and makes his doctrine a much more reasonable prediction of what has happened than Bellamy or his other contemporaries...
...States Bank, disgust with party politics during the Democratic sellout before the Civil War, and always "strong images of a democratic and equal life-of 'ordinary' men and women working, building, making things, growing things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says Mr. Arvin, not only because he was too hardheaded to accept the "lovable insanity" of their more extravagant plans, but because he would not be anything that made him different from the vast mass of plain people. He was no Abolitionist, because of his almost mystical veneration...