Word: utopianizing
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...what they are doing now will matter in the future and that they are building their careers. In many cases, this is not an inaccurate belief. The cost of this attitude, however, is something we all perceive: the loss of community. Rather than being engaged in a four-year utopian community, students simultaneously look inward, towards studies and the necessity of personal academic achievement, and forward, towards the prosperous futures ensured by that achievement. Consequently, Harvard ceases to function as a socially interactive organism and fragments into individuals and groups of students united by similar ambitions. The immediate moment, these...
...Imagine what would happen to the health of our children, our environment, if we just took this little island and made it Organic Experiment No. 1.? His wife smiles and nods her head. Already the gears are falling into place. It may sound like the ravings of a utopian dreamer. But then, what...
Finally, to describe French society as “a society formerly of one cultural, linguistic, and ethnic mode” is to take the utopian aspiration of the Jacobin revolutionaries for an eternal truth. In 1790, Father Henri Gregoire pointed out that most French citizens did not speak French, and he made a long list of the various regional dialects and languages spoken in France. During the 19th and 20th centuries, many immigrants settled in France. Among the 10 most common family names in France today, one can find “Garcia...
...children's eerily perfect execution of their routine creates an impressive performance. They have clearly spent a long time rehearsing. Stranger, perhaps, is hearing the show's utopian themes echoed in conversations with ordinary North Koreans. ?Thanks to the wise guidance of the Great Leader, life has improved so much,? one earnest soldier tells us as our minder looks on. ?The army and the people are all aroused in the great struggle for a prosperous country...
...prospect of rocking out to the hottest new boy-band in Lavietes Pavilion or embracing my gangsta side with Snoop Dogg on a hot and sweaty spring evening in the MAC quad. There seemed no way for the fresh-faced Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives hawking this new utopian vision to fall short. They convinced me with their slogan to “Believe in a Better Harvard.” Just give us a little more money, they said, and we’ll make your wildest dreams come true!But this vision has proven elusive. Like a freshman during...