Word: progression
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...This country owes more than two centuries of progress to that fundamentally American mix of optimism and practicality. In the last eight years, Americans may have lost sight of that venerable tradition, but we have not lost our capability to revive it. We can, and we will—by electing Barack Obama on November...
...Kennedy Center is the deceased President’s official memorial in Washington D.C., and a true testament to the belief of John F. Kennedy ’40 that progress in the arts is more than valuable—it is utterly integral to progress as a nation. Paying tribute to the poet Robert Frost less than a month before his assassination, Kennedy declared: “I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist...
...depths of the Great Depression, because no matter what congressional Republicans say, art is cheap. The NEA didn’t exist until 1965, but in 1935, when the unemployment rate was over 20 percent, Roosevelt created over 40,000 government jobs for artists under the Works Progress Administration. In 1995, the year before the Congress’s massive blood-letting, the NEA’s budget represented just 0.01 percent of federal funds outlays...
...five men spent $138,000 in Virginia that autumn, according to state records compiled by the nonprofit Virginia Public Access Project. Of that, $48,000 went directly to the candidates Ebbin recommended. Ebbin got $45,000 for his PAC, the Virginia Progress Fund, so he could give to the candidates himself. Another $45,000 went to Equality Virginia, a gay-rights group that was putting money into many of the same races...
...idea for the group after he and Lewis attended a Democracy Alliance meeting. The donors felt they could accomplish more for gays if they shared information rather than operate as "silo" givers. Some members were frustrated that the established gay movement in Washington hadn't made greater progress in a society rapidly coming to see homosexuality as a mere variation rather than a moral degeneration...