Word: gradualism
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...learned scholar whose pride leads him to seek knowledge and power normally denied to mortals. Both wise man and fool, he scoffs at the moral givens of his age and experiences the inevitability of divine punishment as a result. Having bartered his soul to the devil, Faustus undergoes a gradual spiritual degradation--a degradation whose dramatic impact depends on the demonstrable grandeur of his initial aspirations. When that grandeur is lacking--as it is in this production--the proud doctor is debased to the level of a foppish magician whose downfall is pitiable but hardly tragic...
...There has been a gradual but perceptible increase in participation in the Church over the last five years," the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, minister in the Memorial Church, said Friday...
...gradual withdrawal from the U.S. was under way. In 1963 he began spending much of his time in Rome, soaking up local color for his first novel in ten years. Julian (1964), a vivid study of the 4th century Roman Emperor who vainly tried to stem the spread of Christianity, was a surprise bestseller. A string of successful novels followed, including the memoirs of Myra Breckinridge (1968), Vidal's funniest word on fuddled sexual identity...
Mollenhoff's gradual shift from pro-Nixon optimism to active opposition and vocal criticism is not engulfed in ideological aversion or vindictive "I-told-you-so" triumph, as are the views of so many Watergate litterateurs. Mollenhoff's experience can be viewed as a mirror of the thought processes of most Americans during the Nixon debacle, the majority who elected Nixon out of confidence in his ability to erase the mistakes of the Johnson years, people who were initially unwilling to accept the disclosures of illegal practice, but who gradually found their doubts eradicated by the snowballing evidence of wrongdoing...
...attempted through public pronouncements to reestablish the justifications for U.S. world hegemony in the face of the "humiliations" of Vietnam. Moynihan presents himself as the defender of an imperiled Western civilization and increasingly threatened individual human rights. Time and again, he has pointed to what he believes is the gradual swallowing up, since World War II, of liberal democratic regimes in a sea of totalitarian states welling up from the third world. He expressed his vision most starkly in a speech last October in San Francisco: "It is sensed in the world that democracy is in trouble. There is blood...