Word: utopianizing
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Governor Luis Munoz Marin reiterated his belief that nationalism is an obsolescent concept in the face of nuclear energy in the concluding Godkin lecture, last night. He declared that federalism therefore must cease to be only a "noble but utopian idea" and become a "purpose to be held by the hearts of mankind...
...presentation that attempts to rise above the one-dimensional "package series" should be attributed a certain amount of esteem even if it falls short of its goal. Mr. Frankenheimer and the splendid cast may have lacked in many respects by your reviewer's Utopian standards, but they brought a rare spark of beauty, truth and creativity to a usually insipid television schedule...
...often. As the lieutenant, Dean Gitter is properly obnoxious, and convinces one that he sincerely believes in the socialist doctrines he preaches. In his final conversation with the priest (adequately though not excitingly portrayed by Michael Mabry), he successfully conveys the impression that some human element is lacking in Utopian thought, while the priest presents the case for suffering...
...taking part in something "experimental." The "experimental" has, for many, the implications that discipline is unnecessary, that the arts offer a way of life which can elude normal obligations and limitations, that the educational community should be set up in opposition to the society as a whole. Such utopian and Bohemian aims are not part of the New College proposal...
...foreign policy as essentially military policy. Thus the fiasco of unleashing Chiang ("In an effort to create a world balance of power, we upset the local balance of power"), thus the Baghdad Pact ("Just because NATO worked in Europe, people thought the idea best for every region"), thus the utopian SEATO pipe dream ("We've armed an awful lot of people in Asia who would never think of firing a gun, not even at a Chinese communist...