Word: utopianizing
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...hours bill; both approve the Housing Act; both demand that credit facilities be extended; and both feel that labor unions should be held responsible in contracts. Through representative groups perhaps the differences between big business, little business, and government might be settled so that all three could turn the Utopian corner called Prosperity...
...shape of things to come. Fortnight ago, Commission Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy presented such a reckoning (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week he made another report, not on sea ships but on the relation of sea ships to airships. To many a landlubber the second report may seem like a Utopian dream, except that it also bears the earmarks of Joe Kennedy's hard-headed eagerness to face economic facts. Chairman Kennedy's plan is not to junk the shipping lines which it is his job to salvage, but to encourage them to extend their services into...
...return to normalcy continued. Wison and his Utopian ideals were relegated to the dog house, and a sound man who would be sure to do the right things went into the White House. Not brilliant, but sound. This was the game where bootlegged liquor and bath-tub gin were given their first official recognition. They were pronounced insufficient...
...rapid salary raises. War and illiteracy will be extinct. Every family will have a $25,000 house. Pensions of $3,000 a year for oldsters will start at once. But none of I.I.U.R.A.'s benefits will be in cash. It will abolish money, substitute a new Utopian medium of exchange...
...Utopianizing, as every Wellsian knows, is H. G. Wells s crowning glory or besetting sin. In Star-Begotten his Utopian agents are extraterrestrial. The Martians know much more than Earth-dwellers but inhabit a nearly worn-out planet, have got to have greener pastures. Their attempt to Martianize the Earth at long distance is thus not wholly unselfish, but neither is it necessarily sinister. "This is a world where lots of us live upon terms of sentimental indulgence towards cats, dogs, monkeys, horses, cows, and suchlike inhuman creatures, help them in a myriad simple troubles, and attribute the most charming...