Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SADDEST SUMMER OF SAMUEL S, by J. P. Donleavy. Once again Black Humorist Donleavy (Ginger Man) proves that he can make something of nothing-in this case a non-hero who has worn out his Viennese psychiatrist and baffled a predatory countess and a girl tourist in his Kafkaesque progress to nothingness...
...case for realism." That case, he explained, means "simply that there is no rest from the trials of free dom, there is no recalling what the pace of change has done to the map of this big world, there is no reducing our responsibilities while the challenges of progress will not permit us to name the site for our duel or the weapons that...
...latest mob pulling down an American flag, the world relentlessly tests American forbearance. Equally so at home. The urgency of the young, the struggle for Negro rights, the plans for the Great Society, the space race -all raise expectations of quick success to balance against the need for measured progress. The ability to find the right pace and the steady strength for the long pull are more necessary than ever. Yet there is, and always has been, a widespread feeling that the U.S. lacks these qualities...
There was an unsettling scent of political smoke, the roar of gunfire, and a search for social progress in the news from Viet Nam last week. The nation's political Buddhists provided the smoke, trying to gain political advantage following the dismissal of General Nguyen Chanh Thi. A rising crackle of Red rifles signaled the growing aggressive ness of Communist troops...
...Turks realize that they are outgunned and outmanned 3 to 1. Yet Greek Cypriots show no burning desire to take the offensive, since they are effectively in control without violence. The fierce fire fights of 1965 have given way to only sporadic bombings. "We have peace but no progress," says U.S. Ambassador Taylor Belcher. "Nobody feels pressure to try for a solution...