Word: utopianizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lies in the fact that lower-middle-class whites and blacks actually share quite similar economic needs: better jobs, better schools, better services, better police protection, relief from taxes. Ideally, they should band to gether, employing their collective economic and political strength to advance their common interests. Is this Utopian...
From John Stuart Mill to John Maynard Keynes, economists, as well as authors and politicians, have cherished such a Utopian vision of the abundant life. The millennium, it was always assumed, would arrive when full employment combined with high productivity to supply mankind with everything it needed, as well as the leisure time to enjoy it. If any problem existed, it would be finding enough to do. But things are not working out that way. So, at least, argues Staffan Burenstam Linder, 38, a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics who has taught at Yale and Columbia. He states...
Storr admitted that war might be a "regulating device for reducing population," but he rejected the "utopian hope" that cruelty can be eliminated by remodeling society and resolving the population problem, since his explanation of man's innate paranoid tendiencies traces back to infantile tendencies traces back to infantile development...
...slum dwellers. Given the economic pressures working upon them, and the present tastes of middle-class and lower-class city dwellers alike. U.S. city planners are no more likely to re-create old neighborhood living successfully than William Morris would have been in rejuvenating Victorian England by establishing a Utopian handicraft community on the banks of the river Wandie. No matter. Despite her mistakes, Jane Jacobs, operating as curmudgeon and gadfly, had taken grandiose assumptions of city planning and stood them on their ears with invigorating effect...
...going to do the best we can and try to muddle through together because there's nowhere to go and there's nothing else to be. That way everyone could be fairly happy because no one would hate anybody. But man, talk about unrealistic Utopian impossibilities...