Word: utopianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pepper Gun. Through this tortured political tale runs a beautifully unexpected thread-a true love story. Marie Louise Vogeler, born into a bohemian-utopian-socialist circle in Germany, was first Gustav Regler's mistress, then his wife, and always his real conscience. As a young girl on the family farm, she knew left-wingers as loquacious loungers who would cut down a walnut tree under which Rilke had written a poem rather than walk farther for firewood-and knew at the same time that nothing good would come of that lot. Through her beauty and her faith...
...Dallas bookstore and shrilled into song: "How much is that book in the window?/ The one that says all the smart things./ How much is that book in the window?/ I do hope to learn all it brings!" They were plugging a novel titled Alpaca, a weird pitch for Utopian plutocracy authored and published by their daddy, Oilman H. L. Hunt, 71, long the fearless Big Daddy to many a far-right crusade (Wisconsin's late Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, Facts Forum, radio's current Life Line program...