Word: utopianizing
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...suppose one should be tolerant of sincere efforts to achieve peace, however futile and misguided they may be. But not since Henry Ford's ill-starred Peace Ship of World War I has there been such a visionary and Utopian proposal as that embodied in the Kennedy Peace Corps. This is merely boondoggling on a global scale...
...tung's proudest contribution to Communist theory was the commune. Undreamed of by Marx or Engels, the commune was designed to mobilize China's peasant masses into huge work units, was a sharp point of dispute between Moscow and Mao. "Impracticably Utopian," said the Russian orthodoxy. Retorted Mao: "The best form of organization for the attainment of socialism and the gradual transition to Communism." But after nearly three years of all-out effort, it is apparent that Mao's communes have failed. They are now being abandoned, in fact if not in name...
...will shortly become dogms in the Soviet Constitution. Similarly, to confound disbelievers in the law of progress, American auto makers have decided to install safety belts in their '62 models. A world full of earnest men coexisting dogmatically and all wearing safety belts is perhaps a little too richly utopian for a generation taught to look at life gloomily--as if from the inside of someone's Better Mousetrap. Yet such a sunny world is emerging, and science has recently made a comforting discovery which ought to dispel completely any snivelling doubts that things are getting better...
...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 of 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...
Fear of Resurrection. Right or wrong, Murry was far from self-righteous. In his religious quest, he enlisted a band of fellow pacifists early in World War II (though he later abandoned pacifism) and founded a Utopian community called Lodge Farm where, Sunday evenings, he delivered sermons. Not as the Scribes is a collection of these lay sermons, some of them infused with at least as much religious feeling as the average Sunday pulpit, and others simply emotional humanitarian tracts...