Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ralph Ellison, author of invisible Man, will read from a novel now in progress tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Burr Hall, Room...
...material modernization, remains quintessential Japanese in its process of thinking, its personal relations, its social organization. Moreover, though technological change can and does profoundly affect societies, modernization is mostly confined to the big cities, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where the heartlands remain relatively untouched by progress. Even in the cities, there is a distinct time lag; some of the more jarring aspects of American culture continue to flourish abroad even while they are on the decline in the U.S., where the general level of sophistication is steadily rising...
With Kennedy's death, Johnson was thrust into a foreign policy maelstrom. In two years, he had to cope with riots in Panama, civil war in Cyprus, massacre in the Congo, killing in Kashmir, sag in the Alliance for Progress, Gaullism in NATO, chaos in the Dominican Republic, and above all, Viet Nam. Johnson said that he felt himself "in the position of a jack rabbit in a hailstorm, hunkered up and taking it." He also had to listen to a lot of contradic tory advice from his lieutenants. The President once petulantly complained that "the Air Force comes...
...Geyelin almost begrudgingly tells a story of worthwhile successes. During the Johnson Administration, the Alliance for Progress has moved from the vision stage of Kennedy's day to the point where practical progress is possible. Johnson extricated the U.S. from the multilateral force, the hapless NATO-nuclear-fleet concept that he inherited from the Kennedy Administration. Foreign aid was put on a hardheaded basis that demands results. New bridges of culture and trade are being extended toward Eastern Europe. China policy is being modified under the fresh slogan of "containment without isolation." Most important, Communist conquest of South Viet...
July 26: Ralph Ellison, author of the Invisible Man, who will read from a novel now in progress...