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...Politician Bevin did not put all his eggs in one Utopian basket. He well knows that it is the governments of three nations, not the peoples of the world, that hold 90% of the world's military power; that the present charter of the United Nations was drafted in painful consciousness of that hard fact...
Idiotic Ideologies. The Prime Minister mentioned plans for the increase of food production in Britain. There were more boos. Said Churchill: "All these plans will be nullified by foolish faction fights about idiotic ideologies and philosophical dreams about absurd Utopian worlds which will never be seen except by great improvements in the human heart and the human head." There was a roar of laughter. Said Churchill: "I'm sorry if that hurts...
...played cards suspiciously well, became a natty secretary to the Kansas City Light & Coke Co., once went to bed for two years (he was tired), and spent his last years in an institution. His mother's fam ily were among the remnants of a once-flourishing, 19th-Century Utopian colony who lived in a rambling, 85-room house near Red Bank, N.J. Father Woollcott visited his wife, said "his disgruntled in-laws, "chiefly for breeding purposes." and little Aleck's arrival was considered "a scandal and a calamity...
...Creed of the Commissar. In a confused and confusing era of human life, the Commissar offers a doctrine that is completely "reasonable." In place of the doubts and contradictions of contemporary science and religion, he offers an "infallible" economic interpretation of history. Finally, after a century of Utopian hopes, he offers the liberal "a real country, with real people-a glorious Russian compensation for a life of frustration...
...this utopian factory, Bogner believes that instead of pampering the worker such an ideal situation would "build an his self-respect, interest, and loyalty to his place of work. The fundamental realization of this age is that machinery in spite of their great potentialities, these and these men must be treated as human beings instead of as more machinery...