Word: utopianism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results of a wide-spread movement towards liberalism," Mr. Russell summed up as he prepared to end the interview, "especially in American universities, would be inestimable. I admit, of course, that a reformer who sits at a desk and evolves Utopian theories is, in the final estimate, useless. But once a student has achieved liberty of thought, his next step is to stump the country trying to convert people, and then he becomes a factor in the progress of civilization...
...Plan deals with actualities, not with imaginary bugaboos or Utopian dreams. Every American man and woman should familiarize himself or herself with the subject and vote on the plan. Whatever their individual views or prejudices, the members of both houses of Congress should be made aware of the actual opinion of the United States upon the great question of America's opportunity and duty to aid with our power, prestige and wisdom in preserving the peace of the world
...When faced with the necessity of doing half a year's reading in two days, the student is ready to admit that he has wasted a great deal of time during the fall term. He probably will be forced to admit that he has done considerably less than the utopian five or six hours' work...
...Paris for the second time. In these speeches Mr. Wilson, with innate altruism, explained the pros and cons of this heritage of the 18th Century philosophers, and categorically reasoned why and for what purpose the U. S. should enter into this great bond of peace, the hall-mark of Utopian endeavor. What he said is well known ?too well known to need elucidation or exemplification; but what is more important is that his stirring appeals have as yet been unrewarded, and, apparently, his high aspirations for the League of Nations are, in Homer's words, "late, late in fulfillment...
...PODD?Freeman Tilden?Macmillan ($2.00). Mr. Podd was Nozzle King of America?a bewildered millionaire. Like most nozzle kings, he had his own individual plans for a Utopian International Commonwealth. So he chartered a ship and set out around the world. The ship's crew took to communism, seized the vessel, marooned the Podd party on a desert island?whence, after many semi-humorous misadventures, they returned to civilization, after discovering that the simple life is not so simple as it sounds. The book is mildly satiric and not unamusing. It could have been much funnier...