Word: utopianisms
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...when Artist John Sloan and a few friends founded the Independents' Show it filled a vital need. The National Academy was neolithic in its conservatism, few dealers would handle the men who were attempting to apply modern painting to the U. S. scene. The Independents' Utopian ambition was to hold an annual show where anyone with several dollars and a picture might exhibit, regardless of his artistic beliefs...
...take at 10% temporary deduction in pay to save the roads from ruin? The workers' representatives said yes. Two years later in Washington Capital and Labor again got together, agreed on a staggered plan to restore the deduction, thus unsensationally closing an achievement in national collective bargaining almost Utopian...
...Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, Columbia's Professor of Municipal Science Luther Halsey Gulick. After lengthy palaver and much questionnairing in Washington, the Committee produced a thoughtful and persuasive report which of itself was no more significant than a thousand other more or less Utopian schemes concocted by academicians in the past. It took on vast importance because it embodied the long-cherished desires of a U. S. President, who, at the peak of his power, had decided to do something about them. Cried President Roosevelt in his message accompanying submission of the Committee...
...Behind the scenes flames a speculation whether debonair, urbane, Utopian Rexford Guy Tugwell will be the ace of the braintrusters in President Roosevelt's second Administration as he was in the first. Indications are that he will. . . . Tug-well's star blazes as brightly as ever...
...indifference is no true neutral, philosophical calm, no objective judgment, but rather a petty reserve which too often excludes its possessor from lively interests. The reaction to the Cross-system has resulted in what Dr. Johnson would have described as an infelicitous congress of inharmonious invidualities . . . It is still Utopian to imagine that any university will attempt to educate students by associations and intercourse with other minds and manners, as well as by lecture courses." Mr. Boyle believes in the Clubs, and there is pith in what he says. This, and more, there is to interest the undergraduates...