Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Integration in the Military." Air Force Lieut. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., 53, the only Negro general currently on active duty, talks about the progress-or lack of it-since President Truman ordered the services integrated in 1948. Repeat...
...Supreme Court in 1954 changed many of the underlying conditions of life in the U.S. by decreeing that the old "separate but equal" doctrine was antithetical to American democracy. Today, a dozen years later, many militant ideologues are impatient with what they consider the glacial pace of progress in civil rights. They espouse instead a racist philosophy that could ultimately perpetuate the very separatism against which Negroes have fought so successfully. Oddly, they are not white men but black, and their slogan is "Black Power...
...duties unless I agreed with the fundamentals of our policies." He does, however, feel that his job was to change the emphasis of some of our policies. One of Reischauer's pet points is the importance of cultural exchanges which he feels are responsible for much of the "progress in understanding...
...that the reporter had been fired because of Reischauer's statement, but the ex-Ambassador catagorically denies it. "The reporter had already [before Reischauer's criticism] made arrangements to work elsewhere," Reischauer explains. But in general, Reischauer believes the Japanese press took his criticisms well and have made great progress in presenting a more balanced view of Vietnam over the last year...
...crusade. Twelve years later, Harvard Critic Bernard De Voto challenged that theory by showing that Twain's very humor was a crusader's weapon. With it, said De Voto, Twain exposed the hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress. The distinctive virtue of Justin Kaplan's book is that even while failing to resolve all controversy about Twain, it does a commendable job of explaining why the controversy exists. A Simon & Schuster editor who resigned six years ago to write this first book, Author Kaplan, 41, approached...