Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the exception of a page of Persian poetry, all of the articles discuss economic development and the resulting political problems and opportunities. The struggle for economic progress is, of course, important in the Middle East, but the same problems are equally important in other parts of the world. Many of the special problems of the Middle East are hardly mentioned in the Review. To be sure, A. J. Meyer's discussion of competition between Israel and Egypt in extending technical and economic aid to sub-Saharan Africa touches on the Arab-Israeli conflict, but it covers only a minor...
...second task of the president, Kerr said, is to further "progress." Yet unlike the giants of the past, the new president "is not an innovator," though "he must be sensitive to fruitful innovation." "Not all presidents seek to be mediators amid their complexities. But most are in the control tower helping the real pilots make their landings without crashes...
...president of a multiversity "wins few clear-cut victories; he must aim more at avoiding the worst than seizing the best," Kerr said. "The ultimate test is whether the mediation permits progress to be made fast enough and in the right directions; the needed innovations take precedence over the conservation of the institution...
...speech at the centennial observations of Boston College Saturday, President Kennedy said, "We are learning to talk the language of progress and peace across the barriers of sect and creed. It seems reasonable to hope that a similar process may be taking place across the quite different barrier of the higher learning.... The new realities of our day have combined to intensify the focal role of the university.... Accelerating change is the one universal human prospect. The universities must help...
...Unfortunately what is called progress is nothing but the invasion of bipeds who will not rest until they have transformed everything with gas lamps-and, what is worse-with electric lights. What times we live in!" So wrote Paul Cézanne in 1902, and, choosing not to live in his times, he spent his last years in the sunlit hills of Southern France in a solitary search for the pure sensations of color. And even more than his oils, the hermit master's ventures in the casual medium of watercolor blaze with a natural incandescence that never could...