Word: utopianizing
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After 160 melodious minutes, the old man on the podium turned to acknowledge the gusty applause. The locale of Trauminsel may have been Mexico and the sets Utopian, but no one who had ever heard a Viennese waltz could mistake the theme-a simple case, as Stolz himself put it in the title of his most famous operetta, of Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time...
...because of the acute housing shortage. By 1960, 31% of all living space in Soviet cities was privately owned. But building materials were in such short supply that last year Khrushchev's new Communist Party program hinted at a reversal of the home-building policy. Nikita's Utopian blue print suggested that the imminent transition from socialism to Communism would make privately owned homes unnecessary. Another reason for the switch: the regime has been increasingly plagued by embezzling public servants who found a convenient outlet for spending their hoarded rubles on town houses and country dachas...
Freed after five years, Prophet Moses returns to Cockpit Centre with a new revelation: God is black. Moses leads his followers up into the hills to build the Utopian settlement of Hebron with their bare hands. But down in Cockpit Centre, the mockers who always ridiculed Moses are now rapturously following a Marxist messiah who preaches revolution and easily defeats Moses in a marketplace debate. The prophet determines to make amends for his philandering and vainglory as God's son should: through crucifixion...
Berger admits that his concept of more theology for the seminaries is going against the stream of the time. But he insists that it does not have to be a Utopian hope. The demand for ministers exceeds the supply, and the churches have no choice but to accept the kind of clergyman that the divinity schools choose to turn out. "This means that theological seminaries, if they can assert even a modicum of independence vis-a-vis the organization, have much leeway for doing at least some of the things that their Christian reason advocates they should...
...remedy this situation. Some would require that all exams bear detailed comments; others suggest that each student have a right to confront his grader. One of the more unique suggestions is that Sanford A. Lakoff, assistant professor of Government. The present student-faculty ratio, Lakoff says, makes it "utopian" to expect elaborate comments or an individual session with a grader. Many courses might improve matters by devoting a special meeting to a "post-mortem" on the exam, but half-courses would find this difficult...