Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay on the Negro contributes to the current liberal no-lash, the let's-ease-up-for-a-while feeling spreading among many well-meaning whites. What do your "remarkable" progress, "dramatic gains," "soaring" percentage increases, "impressive" and "enormous" advances add up to? More segregation in Northern schools, limping tokenism in the South, rising unemployment, widening income disparities, a few Negro Congressmen, and a general slowdown of progress in housing and school integration enforcement. Your estimate that the "Negro's choices are widening with fair rapidity" and that we have come "an incredibly long way" since Lincoln...
Surely we have got beyond the more-this-year-than-last-year way of assessing national progress. Must it take "decades to come" to deal with the "most urgent of domestic business?" If the goal is clear, the business urgent, and the resources at hand, what we need is an escalation of achievement now, not self-congratulation and indifference...
Perhaps the most important factor in this year's elections is general rather than specific. The voters are prey to a variety of frustrations-about the state of the economy, the progress of civil rights, the course of the war in Viet Nam. While each of these issues can cut either way, depending on the particular contest, overall they may spell trouble for the party in power. On the Viet Nam issue, in fact, the voter who feels that the war effort has not been vigorous enough, as well as one who feels that the U.S. should stop bombing...
...what South Viet Nam hopes to be a decade from now: a bustling little land that survived twelve vicious years of internal assault by Communist guerrillas and has gone on to achieve one of the highest standards of living in Asia. Until recently, Malaysians could look forward to continued progress. Now a cloud has fallen over their future. The reason is the sudden reduction in Britain's role as Malaysia's longtime financial angel and protector. With the end of the external threat from nearby Indonesia, Britain is withdrawing its 10,000-man military force...
Well aware that reform of canon law is the key to organizing Catholic progress, Pope John XXIII set up a pontifical commission in 1963 to revise the code. Pope Paul augmented the Commission, which now includes 61 cardinals and 88 consultors-nearly one-fourth of them Italians. Although the makeup of the commission suggests that reform of canon law will be slow and cautious, Monsignor Willem Onclin, its Belgian co-secretary, was present at the meeting of the U.S. Canon Law Society that received the study group's proposals, and returned to Rome astounded and pleased by the adventurous...