Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their jobs, liberal whites threatened with ostracism, and violence sometimes just around the corner. Despite the forth-coming election of Herman Talmadge in Georgia and the loudly proclaimed growth of the Citizens Councils, however, the process of integration in public schools is, and will continue to be, one of progress, conditioned only be experience and circumstance...
...Anglo-Saxon purity. But this period, with its trials, disappointments, and its bitterness, has also served to remind people of what Southern liberals have often said--in a sometimes weak and strained voice: that the issue must be handled with a delicacy almost new to American social and political progress...
There are no easy solutions to the South's problems. Indeed, the greatest danger for the forces of progress is the easy generalization, the lumping of the good with the bad, the single approach to the many pressures and difficulties. There is no single voice of the South...
While the NAACP goes forward as quickly as it can, responsible Southern leaders must be enlisted on their side, without the false maintenance of disclaimers of radicalism that are really the well-springs of inaction. It is, admittedly, not easy to make definite progress in some areas at present; neither, is it sound to criticize Citizens Councils and leave things at that. Southern leaders must stop equating the Councils with the NAACP, for they are really unequal groups. It is time to stop talking about integration in progressive terms while attending a convention up North and then keeping silent back...
Parsons' intense absorbtion in his studies may further account for his apparent impersonality. Any questions directed at his personal accomplishments are invariably answered with generalized evaluations of progress in sociology. When asked to pinpoint a significant experience in his life, he brushes over "a few nice and heartwarming honors," and emphasizes the "sheer excitement of being in the middle of what seem to be important new ideas...