Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Progress is a comfortable disease, E. E. Cummings once wrote. Even so, Americans and West Germans have al ways suffered, while enjoying progressively greater comforts, from the conviction that they should utilize their material prosperity for higher ends. To meet the demand, Lyndon Johnson prescribed the Great Society. Last week Ludwig Erhard called for the Teutonic equivalent: die formierte Gesellschaft -literally, the formed, well-ordered or harmonious society...
Much of Cox's speech concerned personal reminiscences about the progress of the reapportionment cases between 1961 and 1963 and about the personalities involved...
Peters, who believes that Harvard will not slow up his pitching progress, plans to "give major league baseball a try" after his four years here. "In the minors", he said, "if you don't improve the first few weeks, they send you home. Here it is more relaxed...
Scientists at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator will for the first time get a detailed look at their experiments while they are in progress, when a new computer is installed at the Computation Center in January...
...fulfillment of life's meaning and its goal in the truest sense, instead of a mere meaningless cessation." Psychologist Rollo May feels that the repression of death "is what makes modern life banal, empty and vapid. We run away from death by making a cult of automatic progress, or by making it impersonal. Many people think they are facing death when they are really sidestepping it with the old eat-drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-you-die-middle-aged men and women who want to love everybody, go every place, do everything and hear everything before...