Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across the country to settle a land that was poor picking, even for coyotes. After a few years of settling and farming the great scheme began to grow, sending missionaries to all corners of the earth in search for more Saints to swell the ranks of the new Utopia...
...Utopia. In Truro, Mass., the town selectmen lost David Francis, the one-man police department, to the Coast Guard, decided he had been a luxury, decided not to replace...
...Antonio's WOAI offered several prizes, one for the best collector's letter. The winning letter came from twelve-year-old William Wheat of Utopia. While fishing for old tires, Utopia's Willie was bitten by a copperhead snake. He wrote: "We didn't make much on the rubber [247 lb.] after having to pay the hospital and the doctor but anyway we did help lick the Japs and Germans...
...selfish emotions and passions within himself. And any emancipation from these conditions must be accomplished for himself-by himself. Individually and alone. Maybe collectively later, but first as man and then as mankind Surely it is only childish dreaming that makes us hope we can come to live in Utopia without first becoming inward Utopians...
...Count Ciano gave most of his political dinners. Soon S. K. carried a guest card. At the Hunt Club he met Count Roberto Pinelli, member of the undersecretariat of the Ministry of War. S. K. and Pinelli discovered "a mutual enthusiasm for the writings of Thomas More," author of Utopia, 16th-Century blueprint of the society of the future. Though Pinelli wore "the founder emblem of the Fascist party . . . [S. K.] caught hints of his underlying hope that Fascism could and would eventually lead to the spiritual consolidation of Italy and the adoption of democratic principles." While waiting...