Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play as Allan Felix, an ex posed ganglion of neuroses, guilts and self-recriminations, whose wife has just left him. Coached by his fantasy hero, Humphrey Bogart, Allan does get a girl-he winds up in bed with his best friend's wife. The play does not properly progress along with the evening, but Allen's kooky angle of vision and nimble jokes are amusement enough...
...midst of a great social awakening in this country, organized medicine stands as one of the last bastions of reaction. Although our technical advances exceed those of other nations, our relative distribution of those advances to the people is declining. Until socially oriented medical progress can be initiated from the top ranks of the profession instead of always from the bottom (students), and until doctors can be trusted to police themselves, the richest nation on earth will continue to be the recipient of some of the poorest care. As a future member of the medical profession, I cannot and will...
While any progress Nixon makes with De Gaulle seems more likely to be in atmospherics than in substance, the formal welcome of the new U.S. President to Paris will be gracious and el egant. Parisians will be treated to the rare sight of the U.S. flag flying over the Foreign Ministry instead of the customary tricolore. The austere Quai d'Orsay palace, on the Left Bank between the National Assembly and the Invalides, will be turned over to the Nixon party during his stay. The palace walls are decked with priceless Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries, the floors with Savon-nerie...
...optimistic a view may yet prove justified, but it doesn't seem likely. If the barriers to economic progress for blacks are as intangible and as subject to remedial manipulation as Moynihan believes, then it is hard to see why these barriers have proved so difficult to overcome...
Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding gives a fairly clear idea of what Moynihan will try to avoid. What he will be ale to accomplish is much less clear. The next four years may well show that the "quest for community" is not the stuff of which social progress is made...