Word: utopia
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...Gladiators' War which followed ranks high among history's forlorner hopes. For this mob of desperate men overran southern Italy for two years, trounced three Roman armies. Not the least of their achievements was the founding of Sun City, a Utopia as fantastic as the Transcendentalists' Brook Farm or Robert Owen's New Harmony...
...satire of Greek city life, the play tells how two Atheisns, dissatisfied with their city, set out to build a Utopia among the birds. Dreseed in fanciful headdresses and prancing about the stage, the chorus of birds will have an important part in the production...
...Neil is one of the younger directors of the latest crusading organization for an American Utopia; he first saw the "light" sometime before the turn of the century. One of the objectives of the movement is to "combat and defeat all un-American movements" which O'Neil considers mainly as consisting of Communism and Fascism, but which he believes includes most youth organizations today...
...Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress" with social heaven. His real genius lay in his power of blunt statement -a talent that would have taken him far in journalism today. "An acre in Middlesex," said he, "is better than a principality in Utopia...
Unabashed seekers for self-improvement are literary societies for Negroes in San Antonio-the Utopia Club. Elizabeth Prophet Club, Hotel Men's Wives Club, etc.-which solemnly discuss books by Negroes, an occasional novel like Gone With the Wind, in which Negroes appear...