Word: utopianizing
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...present so convincingly that few readers are likely to question it. Brief and compact, with subtle critical formulations worked unobtrusively into its smooth and scholarly prose, it places Whitman's poems in relation to the life of his time-not only to radicalism, the Abolitionists, the Utopian socialists, the Jacksonian Democrats, the youthful robber barons, the trade unions, but to the educators and scientists whose work Whitman studied and the German philosophers whose tomes he praised without studying...
Oldtime Cinemactress Mary Pickford, author of Why Not Try God?, came out in favor of an international sit-down strike by women to prevent war,* added: "Of course, I know and you know that there is a Utopian weakness in such a scheme." Asked to comment on the international crisis, former Kaiser Wilhelm, who last week varied his daily routine by visiting an Egyptian exhibition at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, refused to discuss "anything less than 2,000 years old." At a stock sale in Belmont, Ohio, Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late President, and Republican candidate...
Conspicuous among the adolescent pimples of the U. S. were the Utopian socialisms which broke out sporadically in the 19th Century on the maps of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio. There were Owenite communities in the 1820s, Fourier phalanges in the 1840s, spiritualist communes in the 1850s. As one Utopia failed, the Utopians, dogged, idealistic, excitable, looked round for new capital, moved to the next county, started another Utopia. Most Utopians came from the cities and were bad farmers. Most of them acquired too much land, which was foreclosed at the first slim crop. New Harmony...
...Altogether too glib is Mr. Hicks' defense of the U. S. S. R. in which he admits that the right to criticize the government, the right to advocate a change of government have been denied the Russian people, and adds: "these are not rights that many people want." His Utopian conception of a Communist America is a little naive, and his blithe disregard for minority rights and the law of the land is sometimes disturbing...
...search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick-me-ups which do every thing they should do, and nothing they should...