Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This final volume of their 38-year labor to record man's progress across the span of 20 civilizations proves once again that the Durants are unique historians...
First, he talked to American troops-Marines at Danang, flyers back from the air war up North, sailors on river assault boats-urging them not to be dismayed by the dissent at home. Second, he talked through newsmen to the American public, pointing up the progress in the war and calling for patience. Third, he talked to South Viet Nam's newly installed leaders, demanding a more vigorous effort in both prosecuting the war and broadening the base of Saigon's government...
...symbolism, the national heroes, the sacred founding documents, the optimistic faith in progress-all these unified and inspired millions of uprooted immigrants in an often frighteningly free society. The mood filled a basic human need: never do men so long to belong as when they give up one fatherland for another. Conversely, the U.S. proposition was freedom from orthodoxy. There was not-and is not-any one perfect Americanism. Not in a country that cherishes diversity as a national virtue...
Duehay, assistant dean of the Ed School, should be elected to a third term. Duehay helps form a link between the Ed School's research complex and the Cambridge schools and agressively stands for progress in the city's school system. Equally important, he has a shrewd sense of where to wage his battles and manages to work effectively with the School Committee's traditionalists. When the Committee voted three weeks ago to turn its facilities into "community schools"--open to public and private service groups during off hours--the motion was co-sponsored by Duehay and veteran Committeeman James...
Picking Up Aperçus. Some of the programs advanced by Buckley are being freshly scrutinized by liberals who have become disillusioned with some of their own panaceas. Many agree with Buckley that initiative in social progress lies as much with local government as with federal. Like him, they are unhappy with the massive dislocations caused by such federal superprograms as highway construction and urban renewal. When Bobby Kennedy recently urged private industry to help rebuild the ghettos, Buckley congratulated him for a "statement so sensible that it made recommendations I made three years ago." Buckley, in fact...