Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cordier was in Boston to moderate a symposium titled "Toward the Year 2000: Population Versus Progress," held at the Sheraton Plaza last night. Other members of the symposium, all from Columbia, were Margaret Mead, adjunct professor of Anthropology; Arthur S. Lall, adjunct professor of International Affairs; and Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology...
...color to the rhythm of Mirna's peaceful breathing. A man ran across a graveyard beneath a moon which changed into his mother's smiling face. The graveyard was full of rows of white crosses which pulled backwards beneath the running man's feet so that he made no progress. But he kept running. The moon kept smiling. Scott thought the moon, perhaps, made his mother force his father into science. She taught us to apologize for him. The crosses whirred by. The father ran in the opposite direction all the time though he did everything his family told...
...every other week. Though the program is geared to the long-term patient, about half of the patients newly placed in foster homes are able to go home after about 16 months. Those who remain in Geel, some for as long as 50 years, may make little if any progress, but at least they are exposed to normal human conversation and society and have the simple dignity of honest work. Patients are treated like members of their foster families, eating with them, sleeping in their own rooms, helping with household and farm chores (or working outside the house in bakeries...
...shall grow and the rivers run. Since then, 100 years have swept across the parched Arizona buttes. Now the grass grows sparsely, and water must be hauled from distant wells. As the Navajos' population expands, opportunities shrink. Young men go away. Elders lose esteem. By passed by white progress, the Navajos clutch the tatters of their treaty promises and watch the old ways...
...result was what the French call a dialogue des sourds (dialogue of the deaf), a meeting marked by arm waving, table thumping-and little, if any, progress. Union and government negotiators could not even agree on what to talk about, a divergence that was hardly surprising in a country where workers and management traditionally view each other as implacable enemies...