Word: utopianisms
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...book its title. Sometimes dwellers there hear a sound of distant drumbeats. Are they made by the ghost of an English officer executed during the Revolution? Are they echoes of the death drums of the Senecas? In this fertile field of supernaturalism mystics, fanatics, founders of religious faiths and Utopian colonies have long bred in the Empire State's northern hills. Author Carmer says that the roar of the cities overwhelms the sound of the drum, which may be interpreted as meaning that modern industrialization is death to the sort of myths once powerfully alive in rural New York...
...most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that the land Author Fallas writes of is more Utopian than Japanese, but even cynics will succumb temporarily to its charm...
Throughout the early years of the igth Century, U. S. social thinking was concentrated on the abolition of Negro slavery and the formation of experimental Utopian communities of the character of Brook Farm. Strangest and strongest of these colonies was the Oneida Community at Oneida, N. Y., stronghold of "communism of love" and of experiments in birth control, prosperous manufacturer of steel traps and silverware, centre of scandal for more than 30 years. Founded in 1847 with a handful of converts and a few hun-dred dollars capital, the Community in 1880 owned property valued at more than...
...colony will be Don L. Irwin, general manager of the newly formed Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. A lanky, pleasant Kansas State Agricultural College graduate, he was a successful Wyoming rancher until the Government sent him to head its Agricultural Experiment Station in Matanuska Valley three years ago. Of his Utopian project, Chief Irwin said last week: "Almost the first job will be to clear out the mosquitoes. They are the chief handicap...
...greenhouse was designed by Dr. John Morris Arthur, who last week indulged in a bit of Utopian prophecy: "This new machine will let the suburban householder plug in his greenhouse just as he plugs in his vacuum cleaner. It is almost foolproof in operation and all he will have to do is tend to his plants...