Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boldface Type. Symbols of unity and progress napped like so many ensigns at fleet review. Barry Goldwater sounded like a man from the N.A.A.C.P. New York's John Lindsay agreed to second Agnew's nomination rather than serve as the rallying point for opposition to it. The platform, the keynote address, Nixon's acceptance speech and the subsidiary verbiage were on the whole impeccably progressive in tone, promising jobs, justice, education and a "piece of the action" to the poor, peace in Viet Nam, honorable conciliation with the Communists...
...further strengthen Biafra's hand in Addis, Ojukwu unilaterally declared a cease-fire while the talks are in progress: the Biafrans would launch no new attacks and only fire when fired upon. With the Nigerians aggressively on the move, that is not likely to reduce the level of violence much. But it will improve Biafra's image with the representatives of the Organization of African Unity, who are sponsoring the peace talks, and perhaps ultimately bring African pressure on Lagos to follow suit...
...Pericles, for it includes all the Greek flowering that followed him; richer than Leonardo's, for it includes him and the Italian Renaissance; richer than Voltaire's, for it embraces all the French Enlightenment." Furthermore, they foresee no limits to man's long upward journey. "If progress is real despite our whining," they conclude, "it is not because we are born any healthier, better or wiser than infants were in the past, but because we were born to a richer heritage, born on a higher level of that pedestal which the accumulation of knowledge and art raises...
Frank Dawley, a young ex-factory worker, has deserted his wife and his pregnant mistress to fight for the F.L.N. against the French in Algeria. His journey turns into what might be called an existential Pilgrim's Progress. Is he simply trying to escape the ties of his former life, or is he really bent on revolutionizing the world by fighting for Communism and the Algerians? The relentless sun becomes a more formidable combatant than the French, the endless sand a more unarguable reality than any dialectic...
...courage has long been that organized cultural activities subvert "the fine arts"; he sees the latest threat in a corrupting coalition of irresponsible youth and commercial clowns. In To Abolish Children, the title essay in his assortment of literary trade pieces wrapped around "a fragment of a novel in progress," Shapiro quakes about "these freewheeling organisms equipped with electric guitars." But his arguments are smothered by his indignation...