Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rapid salary raises. War and illiteracy will be extinct. Every family will have a $25,000 house. Pensions of $3,000 a year for oldsters will start at once. But none of I.I.U.R.A.'s benefits will be in cash. It will abolish money, substitute a new Utopian medium of exchange...
...Utopianizing, as every Wellsian knows, is H. G. Wells s crowning glory or besetting sin. In Star-Begotten his Utopian agents are extraterrestrial. The Martians know much more than Earth-dwellers but inhabit a nearly worn-out planet, have got to have greener pastures. Their attempt to Martianize the Earth at long distance is thus not wholly unselfish, but neither is it necessarily sinister. "This is a world where lots of us live upon terms of sentimental indulgence towards cats, dogs, monkeys, horses, cows, and suchlike inhuman creatures, help them in a myriad simple troubles, and attribute the most charming...
...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...