Word: utopianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among many made-in-California imitations and rivals of the Townsend Plan, two achieved notable power and the support of millions of voters: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. (End Poverty in California) and the Ham-and-Eggs movement, both Utopian schemes to aid the poor and aged. Running as the Democratic nominee for Governor on an E.P.I.C. platform in 1934, Sinclair got 879,000 votes to Republican Frank Merriam's 1,138,000. Ham-and-Eggs, cooked up by a radio announcer and two admen, attracted wide public support (and several notorious scoundrels), forced a special referendum...
...settled in when the Depression struck, putting the U.S. in a new mood to listen to his impassioned preaching, and severely testing the era's "Social Gospel.'' which identified "the Christian faith with a mild socialism and a less mild pacificism, all encased in an overall utopian-ism.'' Against this. Niebuhr reasserted that man is born to sin and striving and cannot dodge either. He attacked both religious liberals and political conservatives, made enemies on the right as what was later called a "premature antifascist'' and enemies on the left as an early...
Leading off for the opposition, Michi gan's Dr. Sidney Bolter tried to rip off "the mask of insanity" which, he said, has covered too many criminals. He scoffed at colleagues who "visualize a Utopian chain of hospitals and clinics devoted to the 'treatment' of every individual who breaks the law." Habitual offenders, Dr. Bolter argued, are psychopaths, and nothing can be done with them except keep them in penal institutions; in mental hospitals they are misfits and hamper the treatment of other patients. "Psychiatrists," said...
...Utopian Marriage. "Idea as hero,'' Amis says donnishly, is the basis of much present-day science fiction. Utopias, both Orwellian and benign, abound; one interesting Utopian idea, put forth by Science Fictioneer Robert Sheckley, is a society in which wives are placed in suspended animation and warmed up only when needed, so that they age only one year for every dozen on the calendar...
...could write "with one hand, the equivalent of a blackmailing letter [while] with the other he turned the pages of the Bible looking for an appropriate quotation. While he professed Utopian ideals, he indulged petty swindles...