Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the Northeast attended a Harvard Ed School colloquium on the Report last October. The conference brought together some of education's foremost scholars, including Coleman, in the first public forum of its kind since the Report's appearance. A unanimous call for integration would have been a genuine breakthrough. And falling that, a clarification of the issues dividing experts would have at least explained past academic silence...
Martin Luther King called the three elections a "one-two-three punch against backlash and bigotry." Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke, who made his own racial breakthrough last year, said that "It showed the American Negro what he can achieve through lawful means." And A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany pronounced that "American voters have rejected racism as a political issue...
Like Dr. John Dolittle, Dr. John Lilly is possessed by the idea that humans can and should learn to communicate with other species. To that end, he has spent the past several years learning about bottlenose dolphins, the species that he believes will eventually make the breakthrough...
...Lilly's attractive young researcher, actually lived with a dolphin named Peter in a flooded room for 21 months in an attempt to communicate more effectively. She found Peter to be very responsive. As a matter of fact, Peter exhibited considerable interest in effecting some kind of sexual breakthrough, indicating that Dr. Lilly may be a good deal nearer the truth about inter-species communication than even he suspected...
Tragicomic Figure. The Manor, written between 1953 and 1955 but now appearing for the first time in English, could be the breakthrough book to gain Singer the wider audience he deserves. Like all of his fiction (The Magician of Lublin, Gimpel the Fool), this work is a subtle form of autobiography, projecting the author's own sense of exile. It embraces a quarter of a century of change in the life of a Jewish family near Warsaw in 1863. If the time and plot sound remote, the theme is not. The central character is a kind of petit bourgeois...