Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commented an Episcopal minister at Jackson: "I believe that the tide of progress is finally sweeping even into Mississippi...
...official in Germany was somewhat more hopeful: "Economically we have made little progress, but at least in the American zone we have created a sense of freedom in a people unaccustomed to it. There is no fear of arbitrary police action. This is not true in the Soviet zone." A British observer was sarcastic: "Germans in the American zone now understand that, by & large, their first and only duty is to cause no trouble, feed themselves without a riot, and get on with the business of living any way they can. The other term for that is, I suppose...
...secret committee which agreed that it did not want anything silly or sensational. The purpose, said the sponsoring Los Angeles Fashion Group (mostly movie designers), was nothing so sordid as sales or headlines; it was to "improve taste" and "help turn fashion into more channels of sound and dignified progress [and] away from fly-by-night fads...
Forever Amber (20th Century-Fox) is every bit as good a movie as it was a novel. But it may not be as sensationally popular as Kathleen Winsor's account of a Slut's Progress...
...irrelevant arguments that tend to confound the real issues. Wracked by incompetence, politics, and inertia in its administration, the Cambridge school system is barely adequate, often verging on poor. The administration cannot be changed without a five-to-two vote on a school board that is well stacked against progress. Opponents of any change berate those candidates endorsed by the C.C.A. with charges of personal dislike and the same bad joke of political domination while the real educational issues remain shackled...