Word: utopianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lakoff also criticized Negroes such as the Black Muslims for their "utopian fantasies." They want "utopia now rather than a change in their position in real life," he said...
...Malcolm X was no dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. Flanked by three docile bodyguards Malcolm baffled his Leverett House audience with an oddly-paced blend of demagoguery and rationality, haughtiness and humor, sham history and acute analysis, utopian policies and realpolitik...
...Federal occupation, of course." This penchant for precise numerical prediction is most interesting when focused on the civil rights bill, for Higgs has displayed an incredible touch for Washington politics. Last summer he and several law students drew up an "ideal" civil rights bill, which seasoned observers ridiculed as utopian. Last month the bulk of that bill sailed through the House without a hitch. Higgs had picked his allies cannily, cultivating the friendship of Democratic Congressman Corman and Congressmen McCulloch and Lindsay...
Sorensen is not concerned with the executive machinery or with Utopian plans for its overhaul. He states his thesis simply: "the fundamental nature of the White House makes it inevitable that vital decisions, either many or few, will be made there, either by the President or with his consent, and that the same basic forces and factors will repeatedly shape these decisions...
...Russia's faltering economy is more than a disappointment to the consumer. The letdown strikes at the heart of Communist theology, which borrows freely from the Utopian philosophers in envisioning the age of plenty as the final, inevitable stage of man's progress to perfection...