Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glib to say that the candidates have dodged the issues. George Wallace has artfully exploited white fears of black progress; in that unsavory sense, he has indeed confronted the nation's No. 1 agony-race relations. Richard Nixon rightly boasts that he has spoken on 167 issues, and Hubert Humphrey laughingly admits that he is criticized for having more solutions than there are problems. But quantity is no true gauge. The candidates have not yet spoken explicitly and specifically about scores of basic issues that go to the heart of America's future. They have not revealed...
When he was teaching, Shanker felt that he had unusually good rapport with Negro pupils. But he discovered that despite his best efforts, their academic progress was often slow. Thus his goal in seeking power for his union, he says, is not only to help the schools do "a hell of a lot more" for all students, but to "shape the educational environment" by building alliances between teachers and the rest of the labor movement. "A lot of things we're trying to do for kids can't be done in the classroom. Kids who come to school...
...these days the court is relying on the "good faith" of racist white officials to assure that Negroes are seated on juries in state courts and enjoy other constitutional rights. In Steel's opinion, it is wrong to answer that the court has set the pace of racial progress for the rest of the Government. Instead, he contends, "a cautious Supreme Court has waltzed to the music of the white majority-one step forward, one step backward, sidestep, sidestep...
...industrial state. At the end of the 19th century, this conflict-exacerbated by a civil war and a massive infusion of immigrants-had dislocated millions of people, to say nothing of their ideals. Where was America going? Had a continent been laid waste only for material wealth? Faith in progress was an essential American religion. How was it to be sustained...
...century, however, the search for a usable past that would somehow square the original American ideal with exploitive American practices began to be the constant concern of a handful of historians. Their efforts and ideas form the background of this book by Columbia University's Richard Hofstadter. The Progressive Historians tells the story of three men-Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and Vernon L. Parrington-who did the most to shape America's image of its history as a tapestry of continued progress. Part biography, part intellectual history, part scholarly polemic, the volume is a sharp...