Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report is interesting enough in itself. But of at least equal interest is the criticism directed against the report by the American Medical Association. Such stigmatizations as "Utopian," "revolutionary," contrary to good medical practice," are found in the objections advanced by this body...
...plan of socialization of medical care so Utopian, so revolutionary? Surely anybody who has red over the details of the plan must be struck by the resemblance it bears to the present system of medical attention in vogue in our colleges. In fact, the plan is nothing more than Stillman Infirmary, grown up, and applied to society as a whole. Each grows out of the same basic facts, namely, that the physical condition of our people is of the utmost importance; that too often the individual in need of medical attention holds back in the face of the fees which...
...French Plan, expounded by leonine War Minister Maitre Joseph Paul-Boncour (TIME, Nov. 14), promised to Germans a form of "arms equality" which the German Press ridiculed last week as "Utopian," "Platonic" and "a very clever scheme to preserve" French supremacy...
...Such a Utopian reform, of course, lies in the very distant future, but the great merit of the Institute is that it has no illusions. Rather than let the whole affair slide, its graduates are ready to attack immediate penal problems that can be mended without any sweeping changes. Furthermore, it augurs well for future success that the Institute does not act on the basis of sentimental humanitarianism, but rather from a scientific interest in social welfare. There are and will be many obstacles in its road, including the ponderous weight of a legal mechanism that is very difficult...
...elementary knowledge," may give an ability to read inscriptions, tags, and bon mots, but it can certainly not give the student a literary appreciation of it. The supposition that after a student has an elementary knowledge, he will continue the study of it by himself has proved to be utopian. A single year spent in learning grammar and syntax thus has frequently had no fruits beyond conformity with University Hall regulations...