Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...areas, the Dutch Reform Church found women and children eat three times a week when food supplies for the bantustan run low. Education remains at a minimum, with a shortage of teachers in black schools that is not ameliorated by a ban on white teachers in those schools. Africans' progress through school is so restricted from elementary school onward that by the time they reach the university level they are outnumbered 28 to one, though they outnumber whites in the general population by five...
...sketched sparingly, a vivid and ugly flash of memory, yet it dominates all of Kovic's thoughts and emotions, like the residual traces of a nightmare. It is the point of reference around which all else in the book revolves. His life does not seem so much to progress linearly, as centrifugally, with the Vietnam experience in the center, prefigured by his patriotic upbringing and predestining his whole future...
...witnessed by travelers to China. One apparently authentic article that surfaced in Taiwan, reportedly from a high-ranking officer in the Tientsin garrison command, complains that "the result of incessant campaigns has already been mutual distrust among the people, the cadres and the leaders, which affects unity and obstructs progress...
...feel better that they (Students in a Vise) have talked it through; I think at least we're making some progress in talking about things," he says...
Stephanie's progress from an unconventional childhood in France to adolescence in New York to "maturity" and marriage in New England doesn't seem to teach her very much except that she would really have preferred to be a boy all along. She reaches a climax of liberation from the societal constraints imposed on women near the end of the book, in bed with a homosexual with whom she has symbolically switched roles. This is a singularly tasteless scene in a generally tasteless book...