Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer as a panacea an exodus into the corn fields and rolling prairie land is obviously Utopian and quite impossible under the conditions of the present civilization. But it is not too much to expect, and it is almost an essential to continued existence, that something of those principles of sincerity, steadfastness, and of courage, which are found in the country may be transplanted in the city. There is something wrong with a civilization which forces twenty men in a single October afternoon to jump out of tall buildings because a stock fell ten points. It is a lack...
This somewhat Utopian ideal could, of course, never be fully consummated in the nature of things. A minority of lecturers would continue to be talking text-books. A minority of students would take advantage of the new system to cut, just as they take advantage of the present system to avoid supplementary reading and depend solely on the disconnected facts they glean from lectures. In both cases, however, they would suffer the same penalty as at present --the former by lecturing to empty seats, the latter by premature ejection from the realms of higher education. The true understanding...
...Yellow Ticket (Fox). Balancing the propaganda of imported cinemas which show the Utopian workings of the Five-Year Plan, U. S. producers often display Russia, most frequently pre-revolution Russia, as a hobgoblin empire in which misery had plenty of company and none of the inhabitants was more than one step removed from the Siberian salt-mines. The Yellow Ticket, an estimable antiquity, full of perils for Elissa Landi, shows what might have happened in old Russia when a young girl took it into her head to pay a visit to her convict father...
...Wells, noted historian, novelist, and Utopian, will be the guest of Leverett House at dinner on Thursday, October 29, at 6.30 o'clock, Mr. Wells is spending three weeks in this country in order to see through the publication of his book, "Work, Health, and Happiness." This is the third of three studies to which Mr. Wells addressed himself ten or twelve years ago. The first of these was "The Outline of History," the second, "The Outline of Science," and the latest, now being published, is a survey of Economics. The purpose of these books is to reorganize the essential...
...however, be unmindful that while Nevada contributes to the state of delinquency, the other States contribute the delinquents, and if barbarism prevails in Nevada today, it is because the other States have failed in their task of civilizing the barbarian whose untamed and unbridled nature seeks surcease in that Utopian Mecca of ceaseless, seething marital confusion made possible by the laws of Nevada...