Word: utopianizing
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Like all of the stories in Baseball and the Game of Life, Kissane's account of his childhood enchantment with ballplaying paints the picture of a time when America was young and innocent, a time when familial, small-town existence was the way of life. This utopian vision certainly does not hold true today,if it ever did. Where some of the stories strike out is in over-playing baseball's part in the national identity...
...word stumbles awkwardly off the tongue, all 16 didactic letters, sounding like a fuzzy echo from a long-ago college lecture. Communitarianism. Was it a late-medieval religious heresy, a 19th century utopian philosophy or an aesthetic theory that predated socialist realism? The correct answer is none of the above. But if a new group of centrist academics -- sociologists, political scientists and law professors -- has its way, the term will soon take a place among the important isms that shape the U.S. political dialogue...
...sheen of utopian rhetoric is thin indeed. The very state that has laid claim to erasing religious tensions has, for the last half century, promoted anti-Semitism through vigorous campaigns against "cosmopolitanism," a euphemism for Jewish influence. The ultra-nationalist group Pamyat ("memory") and lesser known groups have recently taken the lead from the government in stirring up such antagonisms...
Each step would involve many real or imagined sacrifices for particular groups; each one would be bitterly fought. Normally, any change remotely as drastic happens only through war or domestic catastrophe. So, is it simply utopian to hope for an American revival...
White Oak is a 7,500-acre estate along the St. Marys River, which separates part of Georgia and Florida. Presided over by Howard Gilman, who owns the Gilman Paper Co., this preserve -- part breeding farm for endangered animals, part Thoroughbred stables -- could be described as either utopian or feudal. Through the years Gilman has nurtured the wildlife program, which includes 26 species of mammals and 30 varieties of birds, like a latter-day Sun King. Gilman has also been an enthusiastic patron of dance, and when his friend Mikhail Baryshnikov was looking for a good spot to prepare...