Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that the preservation of our country can be guaranteed by merely cleaning up the waterways and the air, or bettering the economy, or promoting cooperation among nations, or by following other such similar courses, is absolutely absurd. How in the world can a society have any freedom and progress in a climate of "anything goes"? Gold, power, and science can be at your fingertips, but without a sense of morality you will also have anarchy first, and then slavery...
Looking Elsewhere. As Brennan went on to point out, an inevitable and perhaps desirable adjustment has begun. Lawyers are looking away from the Supreme Court as the sole source of legal wisdom and progress; instead, they are pressing novel claims on receptive state supreme courts. The top courts in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey and South Dakota -among others-have all shown a willingness to go further on certain issues than has the nation's top court. For instance, the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1973 declared the unequal funding of public schools through local property taxes...
...Forbes, but his modern counterparts would be hard pressed to find fault with it today. Despite mind-boggling advances in science and technology over the past several decades?the harnessing of nuclear energy, the mastery of space flight, the breaking of the genetic code?humankind has made little progress in its age-old battle with bugs. For a brief time after World War II, newly developed chemical pesticides gave scientists hope that the ultimate weapon against insects had been developed. Indeed, the bugs were sent temporarily into unprecedented retreat...
...highly competitive, Goetz deplores the emphasis on competition in American life. "People in the U.S. are involved in competition for money, status and jobs and therefore are perhaps not as concerned about one another as they should be." Still, he recognizes that such rivalry enabled the U.S. to progress. "As Franklin said, you work real hard, and you are just a little bit better, and you're a success in business...
...disappear with Armstrong's passing at age 71 five years ago. Indeed what is remarkable about jazz is that its original face has never been lost. The music is no older than the century, and many of its fathers are still alive and playing. Painting and classical music progress sequentially, discarding earlier styles and forms in pursuit of the new (nobody, for example, paints like Giotto today, or composes like Haydn), but jazz continues to flower cumulatively, taking on and transforming the new without ever abandoning the old. It is a fugue with a life of its own, endlessly recapitulating...