Word: utopianizing
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...think that education could be reduced to a series of quotients. Later, he observed William Heard Kilpatrick's philosophy ("We learn what we live"), which turned millions of pupils away from their books to endless activity projects. When T.C.'s Professor George Counts was going through his Utopian phase of daring schools to "build a new social order," Russell quietly warned against playing into the hands "of the extremist, left or right...
...many a Tory, this was revolutionary. Rab was accused of "me tooism," of "trying to amalgamate the Tory Party with the Y.M.C.A." Even Tories who had no quarrel with Rab's principles felt a distaste for putting Utopian plans on paper. But in local meetings and party conferences, the rank & file enthusiastically adopted Rab's policy papers. Tory Party membership nearly doubled in the space of a year. In 1951 the Tories came back to office. Their margin was narrow -in fact, Labor polled more votes while the Conservatives won a handful more seats. If they had failed...
Said Hutchins: "In Utopia, if there were a House Committee on un-Utopian Activities, as of course there is not, it would dedicate itself to seeking out and exposing those elements in the community which were trying to put an end to difference and hence to that discussion which the Utopians regard as the essence of true Utopianism. In Utopia the rich and the conservative agree that, looking at matters only in terms of their own selfish interests . . . the preservation of free discussion and criticism is the best guarantee against violent attacks upon Utopian institutions . . . The only kind of university...
...October 1944, when the U.S. wanted to believe that peace could be permanently achieved by the mere setting up of a United Nations organization, Congresswoman Luce gave the problem a fresh appraisal. For the New York Herald Tribune Forum she traced the history-and weak points-of Utopian peace plans, from a Chinese try in 546 B.C. up to the League of Nations. "Those who refuse to remember the past are condemned to repeat it," said she. In May 1945, long before the U.S. got around to a foreign policy of "containing" Communism, she warned: "If we want to stay...
...unpublished introduction to Babbitt in which Lewis discussed his caricature of "the Tired Business Man . . . who plays third-rate golf and first-rate poker at a second-rate country club." But there are other, highly readable things: a sly reminiscence of a month spent with Upton Sinclair in a Utopian-socialist community; a group of sketches about his apprenticeship as a reporter ; a picture of Jack London trying to read Henry James and bursting out with a wail: "Do any of you know what all this junk is about...