Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the bewildering confusions of 13 postwar months the U.S. people had watched the progress of their onetime ally, Russia, and they had come to a conclusion. From a zenith of popularity just after V-E day, Russia had dropped to a point where most U.S. citizens had decided that she was no longer a friend but an antagonist...
Russia has a dual personality consisting of: 1) great eagerness to learn about the U.S., mixed with self-consciousness about the Soviet Union's own lack of material progress; 2) hostility toward the Western world, as personified by the secret police and the party bureaucracy (whose ill will is so violent that it is hard to believe that they are sincere. The suspicion is inevitable that their hostility serves some ulterior purposes). But the aggressiveness of the anti-U.S. elements (in Russia) will not lead automatically to war because the Russians believe that at the moment...
...desire to press damage charges against squatters or ask heavy sentences for the five Communists arrested on conspiracy charges during the squat. Meanwhile, the Communist Party line had become almost as occult as the Indian rope trick: to disclaim responsibility for inciting the squatters, while claiming credit for all progress made in the housing situation...
...permits itself criticism. The rigid persecution of unbelievers, and their forceful silencing, by the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, and the rigid persecution of nondemocrats by most democratic countries today, are typical of the unhealthy attitudes taken by majorities toward minorities. Only by free discussion can humanity progress towards global peace...
...Progress on all of the University's emergency housing projects from the Brunswick to Fort Devens has been brought up to date for the information of all students by Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice president of the University, in a letter to the CRIMSON received over the weekend...