Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult to summon up such energetic enthusiasm for the grand, excessive project. Blacks, for example, have remained on the margins of Bicentennial celebrations. But they have launched some notable projects. The National Urban League has distributed a series of booklets called Black Perspectives on the Bicentennial-covering black economic progress, the black press, education and politics. Two weeks ago, the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum opened in Philadelphia, 1½ blocks away from Independence Hall. It houses the most extensive collection of black American documents and artifacts yet assembled...
...framers of the Declaration were "supreme realists who had no illusions about the new nation they had founded." They did not expect it to be perfect. Says he: "Democracy is frequently diverted. It's slow, and it takes a lot of wasted effort. I do believe in progress, as the framers did. A lot of people think that because they can't have the millennium tomorrow, democracy isn't worth the effort. But that's not what human life has ever been about. Roger Sherman and the other patriots would not have been so obsessed with...
...thorough skeptic, he speaks of the early Christians with amused contempt. Their martyrdoms were far fewer than religious enthusiasts now claim, he says. And he maliciously derides the church's "uninterrupted succession of miraculous powers, of healing the sick and raising the dead." Gibbon sees little if any progress when the early Christians "finally erected the triumphant banner of the Cross on the ruins of the Capitol." On the contrary, he believes that the Christians were too otherworldly at a time when the world's concerns badly needed attention...
...passed it. Perhaps in the belief that Yale needed time to prepare for his arrival, John Trumbull waited six years before entering, then remained at the college for nine years as a student and instructor, and finally commemorated his stay with a satirical mock-epic poem called The Progress of Dulness...
...Christian Democrats apparently gained at the expense of the neofascists (MSI) and of their allies in the "center" (the Republicans and Liberals), while the vote of the left seems to have shifted from the Socialists to the Communists. The resultant bipolarization will hardly contribute to the stability or progress of Italy. The new government will not have the confidence of the electorate--whether (after the political manuevering presently occurring) that government turns out to be one of the DC alone, another coalition of the "center-left," or the "Historic Compromise," a government of DC and the Communists (PCI). A compromise...