Word: utopian
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...Yellow Ticket (Fox). Balancing the propaganda of imported cinemas which show the Utopian workings of the Five-Year Plan, U. S. producers often display Russia, most frequently pre-revolution Russia, as a hobgoblin empire in which misery had plenty of company and none of the inhabitants was more than one step removed from the Siberian salt-mines. The Yellow Ticket, an estimable antiquity, full of perils for Elissa Landi, shows what might have happened in old Russia when a young girl took it into her head to pay a visit to her convict father...
...Wells, noted historian, novelist, and Utopian, will be the guest of Leverett House at dinner on Thursday, October 29, at 6.30 o'clock, Mr. Wells is spending three weeks in this country in order to see through the publication of his book, "Work, Health, and Happiness." This is the third of three studies to which Mr. Wells addressed himself ten or twelve years ago. The first of these was "The Outline of History," the second, "The Outline of Science," and the latest, now being published, is a survey of Economics. The purpose of these books is to reorganize the essential...
...however, be unmindful that while Nevada contributes to the state of delinquency, the other States contribute the delinquents, and if barbarism prevails in Nevada today, it is because the other States have failed in their task of civilizing the barbarian whose untamed and unbridled nature seeks surcease in that Utopian Mecca of ceaseless, seething marital confusion made possible by the laws of Nevada...
...these arguments, especially the last, have considerable validity. But while such a display is one so obviously thrilling to all people despite their political, economical, or Utopian creeds, it proves very little in the forecasting of future public attitudes toward exhibitions of a similar nature...
...scholarships or the lowering of fixed charges. He envisions the possibility of a ten million dollar fund whereby every year a thousand men who would otherwise enter another college would be enabled to come to Harvard on a complete equality with all. Such a fund is perhaps a Utopian dream. The proposal to employ such money as the University may acquire for an increase in scholarships and a lowering of charges, however, will have the solid support of undergraduates. More important to the University than buildings are the men who fill them. Harvard ought to do everything...