Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This final volume of their 38-year labor to record man's progress through 20 civilizations, once again demonstrates the Durants' immense talent for transmuting tireless research into never tiresome storytelling...
...spent nearly a year as a physician with the Army here, I have seen the deplorable state of Vietnamese medicine, and I have been embarrassed and angered by the feeble efforts of our government in this sphere. In striking contrast to the dismal record of governmental bureaucracy is the progress of the religious organizations; and though I am by no means a religious man, I am proud of what these Americans are doing. I speak with special feeling of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission Hospital here in Saigon. In this institution American doctors are bringing ever more sophisticated medical care...
...miles wide that could destroy the peace of 20 million Americans. He also argues that competition from cheaper, larger "jumbo jets"-which will produce no sonic boom-could turn the SST venture into "a gigantic boomdoggle" with the taxpayers absorbing most of the loss. "We all believe in progress," he says for his group, "but some things just aren't progress. Aviation should be the servant of man, not his scourge...
...long way from its goal of making the best health care available to all Americans. But in a recent series of 64 exhausting closed sessions with Congressman Wilbur Mills's Ways and Means Committee, he was confident that the two plans could be improved to accelerate progress toward that goal...
...beware of accepting uncritically ideologies of the secular world." He had begun his speech by describing how theories of evolution and historical criticism brought new depth to the Christian concept of God, but how it also brought "false at- tachment" to the liberal-Victorian ideollogy of secular cultural progress...