Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of these circumstances it is difficult for us to agree either with the description of a "faltering" faculty, or with the statement that "the faculty under pressure from black students broke with one of the basic traditional principles." Rather, it seems to us that we have made considerable progress on a journey on which we had already embarked before the events of April 9 and 10. The new program for our black students may well become a model, of relevance both the scholarship in a new field and to the peaceful evolution of democratic institutions in the United States...
...persistently the major social and foreign problems of our society." Certainly the Amherst statement reflected the views of many moderates. Yet the equation is not that simple. The major social and foreign problems of society will not be solved quickly or easily. No matter what the pace of progress, there will always be some who demand more speed. The universities cannot contribute their share of forward motion if they are occupied with a battle for survival...
...conference's host and organizer was Malaysia's Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. A British-educated, golf-playing Moslem, Rahman is convinced that the predominantly Islamic nations of Africa and Asia must take a fresh look at "illogical beliefs" that interfere with their economic and social progress. Like many sophisticated urban followers of Mohammed, he is appalled, for example, by the almost total ignorance of contemporary business and financial practices on the part of rural Moslems. Often picking up their misconceptions from local ulamas, or wise men, these villagers, among other things, refuse to buy life insurance...
...many advocates of crisis intervention, the unfortunate effect of hospitalization is a basic article of faith. Their objective is to obstruct the patient's progress to an institution, and they can point to some conditional evidence of success. The annual commitment rate to state mental hospitals from San Francisco, for example, has dropped from 2,887 to 119 in the past four years-a decline in which the city's expanding complex of emergency-treatment centers was a major factor. Grady Memorial Hospital, which opened a crisis center in 1968, now treats 5,000 psychiatric emergencies a year...
...homosexual husband, Beppo, interrupts this time to seduce Fidelman from his wife -and from art. Beppo is a truly queer dens ex machina; yet Malamud clearly intends him for the role. It is Beppo, in fact, who finally gives Fidelman the word on his "painter's progress": "After twenty years if the rooster hasn't crowed she should know she's a hen." And it is Beppo who points instructively to the future: "If you can't invent art, invent life...