Word: utopianizing
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...campaign. Over the years, he has turned out dozens of articles and seven books on foreign affairs and economics, all of them vibrating with the liberal tones of the big-government planner and spender. With Kennedy's blessing he was chief author of the eloquent thousand and one Utopian promises in the Democratic platform in Los Angeles. He also served as a somewhat neglected Kennedy foreign policy adviser in the campaign...
Waiting for Jack. As in numerous other Utopian military settlements scattered from Germany to Okinawa, President Eisenhower's order was heard with shocked incredulity at Wiesbaden village. For the villagers themselves, the impact was somewhat cushioned by the discovery that the order does not involve any immediate separation of families already overseas-only their replacements. But Air Force and Army brass, defending their way of life, hurried to point out that an oasis like Wiesbaden is an inspiration to men stuck with unattractive assignments at a Turkish radar site or a missile battery on a remote German mountain-they...
...appealing to an age of total inflation was Max's insistence on "limits," especially his own: "My gifts are small. I've used them very well and discreetly, never straining them; and the result is that I've made a charming little reputation." Bigness, grandiose gestures, Utopian schemes, monumental successes not only terrified Max; they affronted his household god, common sense...
...Trial Begins, by Abram Tertz. Pseudonymously signed and smuggled from Russia, this remarkable work of socialis surrealism bitterly mocks the monolithic state with its Soviet Organization Men, its Bolshy bitches and addled Utopian dreamers, suggesting among other things that under the Communist icecap, the Russian spirit still lives...
...Among many made-in-California imitations and rivals of the Townsend Plan, two achieved notable power and the support of millions of voters: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. (End Poverty in California) and the Ham-and-Eggs movement, both Utopian schemes to aid the poor and aged. Running as the Democratic nominee for Governor on an E.P.I.C. platform in 1934, Sinclair got 879,000 votes to Republican Frank Merriam's 1,138,000. Ham-and-Eggs, cooked up by a radio announcer and two admen, attracted wide public support (and several notorious scoundrels), forced a special referendum...