Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that case he would not write at all. Of all U. S. authors, Author Sinclair is doubtless the foremost believer in Art for Man's Sake. Preacher first, novelist second (a bad second), he has founded many a tragic, many a sordid tale on fact, embellished it with idealistic Utopian fantasy, false to human nature. Mountain City, latest of his many novels, is more a sordid than a tragic story, its propaganda negative, implied rather than explicit...
What is needed is some common ground where all these factions can meet, debate, and arrive at their several solutions for the problems of the world. Nothing could be more healthy, more stimulating, or more worthwhile. Unfortunately the difficulties confronting such a Utopian organization are tremendous. The various groups do not want to meet each other regularly. Support of the forum by one clique would immediately give it a touch of the plague in the eyes of the other sects...