Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Music is the sensitized constancy of the world's noises. The most difficult problem of any art is to progress without replacing one set of arbitrary conventions with another set. The avant-garde, in attempting to solve this problem, is generating fresh breezes across the face of music. And when their successes and failures are recognized, young people will no longer approach classical music through Beatle allusions and electric disembowelments; they will come to music as the most sensitive come to a film by Godard or Bunuel, because they must, because they wish to speak...
...NATO, and probably advance a Franco-American rapprochement. At home, the President can hardly expect a sudden breakthrough in the overweening problems of racial discord and dissent about the Viet Nam war. Europe is the area in which he can best hope to make some quick and perhaps dramatic progress...
...dissenters are John and Charles Wesley (March 3), the 18th century founders of Methodism, George Fox (Jan. 13), the 17th century founder of the Society of Friends, and John Bunyan (Aug. 31), the Puritan author of The Pilgrim's Progress. All of them had their problems with the Church of England. John Wesley, himself an ordained Anglican priest, broke with the church when it refused to recognize his movement, and ordained his own ministers. Quaker Fox and his flock were hounded by church authorities for much of their lives. Bunyan spent twelve years in prison for preaching without...
...Millennium. In Washington, Allen expects to encourage progress by prodding the states into action. "The states simply must play their part in the renaissance of education," he says. "They must release the power for innovation arid accomplishment that's bottled up in local communities." While willing to be flexible in dealing with school districts that preserve segregation, Allen insists that "when there is a violation of the law, the full force for compliance will be exercised...
...created two European characters, set them against a European landscape, and turned them loose in what has always been a typical American literary form-the novel of youthful escape and adventure. From Huckleberry Finn to On the Road, the characters in such stories yearn for joyful freedom; their picaresque progress becomes a disapproving comment on the society they are trying to flee. Forced back into confrontation with that society-as the main characters in Irving's fine first novel are-they tend to dream up quixotic schemes for drastically revising the world they hoped to reject. In this case...