Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the demands mean and how best to achieve them. The essential ingredient is a willingness on the part of administration and Trustees to give and take on the two really important issues as well as the problem of student seating on administration committees. On the seating question, progress is being made, since several college and Trustee committees are actively seeking student members...
...been expanding faster than we know how to handle it--and so we get smog and famines and ugliness. Growth for its own sake has somehow been confused with progress," Brower tells his audiences. And then, since the slogans are easy to ignore, he recites a list of some of the most outstanding mistakes planned in the name of progress--tapping the Yukon River for California, building an SST, or damming the Mekong in South Vietnam...
...said that this effort could influence the progress of the convention after the first ballot, when delegates' commitments are no longer binding...
Looking forward, onetime New Deal Brain-Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell gives a progress report on his 32nd effort to bring the U.S. Constitution up to date. Dubbed the "Refounding Father" by his colleagues, Tugwell spells out a citizen's responsibilities along with his rights, emphasizes the shift in society from "competition to mutuality...
Contempt for Manual Work. All the conditions usually blamed for Asia's backwardness-such as lack of capital, of resources, of education-certainly exist, reports Myrdal. But far more damaging to progress are what he sees as basic Asian character traits and attitudes. In one long sentence that amounts to a Doomsday Book, he lists them as: "Low levels of work discipline, punctuality and orderliness; superstitious beliefs and irrational outlook; lack of alertness, adaptability, ambition and general readiness for change and experiment; contempt for manual work; submissiveness to authority and exploitation; low aptitude for cooperation." The last, Myrdal notes...