Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anne Meara manages to chew gum and act at the same time as a Gerald Ford figure; her role is amusing, but it fits poorly into the narrative. Playing Kissinger with a Greek accent, Melina Mercouri advises Jackson from abroad, using a portable phone to check on the abbess' progress. It is funny once or twice, but not as a running gag. Still, there are few problems with the acting save the occasional air of embarrassment from the nuns who deliver the poorest lines...
...even though the draft no longer threatens increasingly self-satisfied Harvard students, the messages Thoreau offers on the harms of unchecked technological progress and his philosophy on attaining "consciousness" make for insightful entertainment...
Prior detests this kind of "progress". In one of his paintings industrial wastes billow into the air amidst a peaceful pastoral setting. Another painting called "House on a Highway" shows a home whose yard is bordered by a chain link fence. A fragment remains of the old wooden fence that must have marked the boundary more picturesquely before the highway was built. A basketball lies forgotten by the fence--the yard is not a very nice place for children to play any more. Ironically, a billboard by a highway peaks out of another charming landscape exhorting us to "enjoy!" what...
Although many said they had never followed the progress of the Corporation's committee on shareholding decisions, protesters who had kept tabs on ACSR suggest the body is simply an effort at appeasement. One student reminded this reporter that several Houses had even boycotted the elections of a student representative to ACSR in the first years of the committee's existence. "The rationale for the University's policies have absolutely no connection with what a little committee feels is ethical," Mary Basset '74 said...
Shoemaking, for instance, is well suited to Third World nations because it requires little capital and manpower is plentiful. South Korea and Taiwan, whose rapid economic progress has set an example for the entire underdeveloped world, are utterly dependent on the U.S. mar ket for the sale of shoes. In just nine years, Brazil has created from virtually nothing a $170 million shoe export business...