Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Zoe Dana Underbill, 87, daughter of the late, great Charles Anderson Dana, onetime owner & editor of the New York Sun. Born on Brook Farm. Mass., in whose famed Socialist-Utopian experiment her father was a prime mover, she was its last surviving member...
...come upon Charles Island only to find it already occupied by two other romantic German couples. Arthur Wittmer and his wife, Margaret Walbrol, practicing nudists, lived with their two children in a corrugated zinc hut. Dr. Karl Ritter and Frau Dore Koervin had abandoned their respective spouses to seek Utopian freedom. Dr. Ritter was a dentist. Thinking of life 800 miles from an electric drill, he had all his own teeth pulled, substituting an indestructible set of stainless steel grinders...
...Utopian Reed began his Eastern adventure by announcing an advisory committee, consisting of Esther Strachey (divorced wife of British Journalist John Strachey), Alfred Bingham, editor of Common Sense, Felix J. Frazer and Harold Loeb. Messrs, Loeb and Frazer were handy associates of Mr. Reed. Last spring they were employed under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to make a National Survey of Potential Product Capacity in the U.S. When FERA gave up supporting the survey, New York City's Public Welfare Department saw it through. Three months ago one researcher, Robert R. Doane, caused a sensation...
This was so much raw meat for Utopian Reed. Instead of the $20,000 a year income promised two years ago by Technocrats, and the $10,000 a year income promised by Utopians in California, he took Mr. Loeb's figure. $4,370. "These." he said, "are virtually Government figures. Their accuracy is unquestionable...
...Utopian Reed insists he did not know about Utopian Bellamy until much later...