Word: utopians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...change is fearful, especially one affecting both politics and sex roles, so let me begin these Utopian speculations with a fact. To break...
...Calkins's classmates who's been successful in his own way is James Leroy Bernard. Bernard refused to serve in World War Two, and spent time in McNeil Island Federal Prison, then the psychiatric section of the Veterans' Hospital in Los Angeles. He visited a Utopian colony in Paraguay after the war to gather material for his senior thesis, and ended up staying thirteen years until the colony went out of business in 1961. He and his wife organized an obstructive but non-violent picket line at Port Chicago, California, from which 90 per cent of U.S. ammunitions for Vietnam...
...conservative Vice President Francisco Augusto Lora-lagged far behind. The man who would have proved Balaguer's strongest opponent, ex-President Juan Bosch, was abstaining from participation in the election, and so was his Dominican Revolutionary Party, the country's largest political party. Explained Bosch, a Utopian with a strong emotional following among the poor who was overthrown by the military in 1963 after only seven months in office: "Elections don't solve anything, because the military does not respect the results." Instead, the former President urges what he vaguely describes as "a dictatorship with popular support...
...world with no war, poverty or want. There would be the opportunity for any man to realize his potential, and no opportunity for any man's potential to be stunted at any stage of his life. He would be adequately housed, fed, and educated. Although I say it's utopian. I do feel it's achievable, I like to think that men are capable of anything rising to any great heights or sinking to any low depths. This country and the other countries of the world can do the things they should for their citizens if they have the will...
...same students who envisioned the university as a utopian community sought a life style equally as revolutionary. Their life style was best described by the word spontaneity. The key to spontaneity was expression. . . . These students found enjoyment in activities that encouraged expression of feeling: hard rock music, sex, long hair, creative and flashy clothes...