Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mission," tall, 52-year-old Liberal van Paassen gave his staid Bostonian audience no opportunity to doze. If liberalism is indeed the devil, the devil is what he gave them. For a full hour and a quarter he sawed the air and pounded the pulpit in defense of human progress and the early perfectibility of man. Excerpts...
...outside of intellectual circles, Professor Toynbee's name was known to few Americans. Even fewer had read his monumental work in progress, modestly titled A Study of History,†- of which six volumes (with a possible three more to come) have appeared at intervals since 1934. Yet A Study of History was the most provocative work of historical theory written in England since Karl Marx's Capital...
...short, is bound to passivity by the perfection of what He has created. Further progress is impossible. Says Toynbee: ". . . The impulse or motive which makes a perfect Yin-state pass over into a new Yang-activity comes from an intrusion of the Devil into the universe...
...International Woodworkers of America, and the Canadian Fishermen's Union (TIME, Jan. 13). But anti-Red movements are strong in some of the unions. And in "politically conscious French Canada" the Reds have been whacked down harder than ever recently. Actually, the party seems to have made little progress since war's end. But the Reds were still trying harder than ever. On May 1 their weekly paper, the Canadian Tribune, will become a daily to give them a brassier horn for propaganda in Canada...
...Bettina Wilson, fashion editor of Vogue, held with progress. When she swirled into London's glacially snooty "400" club (evening dress required) wearing a breathlessly new, just-above-the-ankles Paris gown, she was politely given the gate and a little lecture. "One swallow does not make a spring," Proprietor George Rossi told her primly. "When we see more women wearing evening dresses above the ankles, we will revise our standards." Mrs. Wilson went quietly...