Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the campaign's preliminary stages over, the first assessments of Early-Starter Stevenson's performance were on record last week. His campaigning, actually in progress since he announced last November that he would seek the nomination, might have given him a genuine advantage. But the Gallup poll did not show that it had done so, nor did the first cool analyses of what he had accomplished...
...various forms, that prayer reappears throughout all of Toynbee's writings. In an era when most historians, of what Toynbee himself has called the just-one-damn-thing-after-another school, saw religion either as a block to progress or else considered it beside the point, Toynbee gave history not only a pattern but a spiritual end. He reached the conclusion that man's real history is religieus history and that civilizations are really nothing but steppingstones in man's progress to deeper spiritual insight. Yet Toynbee, an Anglican in childhood, always showed himself so ready...
...acteristics, intelligence is the one most easily measured and least subject to change. Studies have shown that the children of the intelligent are more likely to be intelligent than those of the unintelligent. Pauling would like to carry this proposition several steps farther. "We believe," he says, "that significant progress can be made in the attack on mental deficiency by ... fundamental research employing the most powerful techniques of modern chemistry ... to understand the causes and workings of certain abnormal molecules...
...usual, is lagging behind in the innocence-cum-diabolism department, but there are signs of progress. Somewhat out of this class, both by virtue of her advanced years (22) and the intense seriousness of her subject matter, is Lucy Daniels (see below). While less concerned with sex than social conscience, her fine novel nevertheless manages to include hints of miscegenation as well as murder...
...Herzen's teaching with some wry modern hindsight. As an observer of 19th century Europe, "only Marx and Tocqueville are comparable to him," says Berlin. "For Herzen," he says, the " 'collective nouns' capable of stirring strong emotion, like Nationality, or Democracy, or Equality, or Humanity, or Progress . . . [were] modern versions of ancient religions which demanded human sacrifice . . . The dogmas of such religions declare that mere invocation of certain formulae, certain symbols, render what would normally be regarded as crimes or lunacies-murder, torture, the humiliation of defenseless human bodies-not only permissible but often laudable...