Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passion rather than an onerous civic burden, and politicians "enjoy a regard which . . . can today be claimed solely by the more popular American film stars." Occasionally, the passion leads to refinements probably not dreamed of in Marshall Plan philosophy. At an orchestra rehearsal, "the composer of the work in progress having informed the orchestra that the next 25 bars of his tone-poem represented the triumph of democracy over Fascism, all the strings got up and cheered and the brass and percussion walked out in a rage." The woodwinds (who in Greece "are almost always Liberal") compromised by sitting quietly...
Amsterdam, he found his opponents well aware of two dimensions-"the contrasts of good and evil, freedom and necessity, love and self-centredness, spirit and matter, person and mechanism, progress and stagnation-and in this sense, God and the world or God and man. Who would deny that these are important categories? I am not unaware that . . . within this framework . . . [is] more profound thinking . . . than there was a decade...
GENTLEMAN'S PROGRESS (267 pp.)-Dr. Alexander Hamilton, edited by Carl Bridenbaugh-Chapel Hill...
...strategically nor economically. It has been, rather, a proving ground on which the United States attempted to show Asia that it could remake a Japanese territory into an independent, democratic nation. The comparative simplicity of the task undertaken by the American Military Government has permitted careful evaluation of the progress at each stop of the occupation. Briefly, General Hodge's assignment was; to eliminate Japanese control, reconstruct the economy, set up a democratic government, and get out. Unfortunately, the peoples of Asia now behold a complete failure to achieve these goals...
...must distinguish, he emphasized between communism and social change. "There is no point in being against progress." He urged that America compete with Russia by sending agricultural industrial and cultural missions to all Asia...