Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK JACK, by Leon Garfield (Pantheon; $4.50). Resurrected after hanging, Black Jack and a young apprentice begin a wild progress across 18th century England that leads to murder, body snatching, and a love story. A splendid swashbuckling tale...
...military had already been long at work on upgrading South Vietnamese forces. But the enemy's winter offensive was soon in progress. When the attacks abated somewhat, firm plans could be made to begin supplanting American troops with South Vietnamese...
...commissions on his New York Exchange. Whether the exchange can hold this business against rising competition from other markets, such as regional exchanges, and whether it can handle the still greater trading volume that is sure to come in future years, will depend heavily on the progress it makes toward solving its present difficulties...
...clover field. Ancient Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley, Tokyo in 1900, medieval Antwerp are all plundered for signs of stagnation or growth. But her key comparison is drawn from 19th century England. In the 1840s, says Jane Jacobs, Manchester looked like a model of progress and modernity. It had become a rich, gigantic industrial machine for cranking out textiles. By contrast, Birmingham then seemed outmoded. It was "a muddle of oddments," where myriad small firms busily made saddles, harnesses, tools, buttons, guns, jewelry, papier-mâché trays. What happened? When other cities began producing their own textiles...
...organized agriculture and animal husbandry. In an age when most Americans have been persuaded that great cities are creeping problem areas, to be deplored and if possible escaped, Jane Jacobs perceives and persuades that cities and the challenge of their problems offer a mighty and reliable means for national progress...