Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cuba has contributed a number of inventions to the progress of warfare and repression. The Spaniards bred the slavehunting dogs, "Cuban hounds", that were exported to the United States. Spanish generals invented the system of concentrating a rural population in garrisons and declaring anyone outside them a rebel that the United States would employ in Vietnam under the name of "strategic hamlets" policy. Cuban revolutionaries refined the techniques of urban terrorism as far back...
From being so poorly understood that a confiscation of "red books" nets The Red and the Black and The Knight of the Red House, but misses Capital. Marxism emerges as the only political philosophy offering hopes of progress. The Student, a young popular leader who organizes the first general strike, comes to symbolize the Communist answer to the Head of State's corrupt method. Though he does not succeed in bringing about a popular revolution, near the end of the book The Student surfaces in Paris as he is leaving for the "First World Conference on Colonial and Imperialist Politics...
America, therefore, is power, space, democracy. It is the land of every experiment, of every curiosity, even of every excess, all absorbed finally in the crucible of progress, just as all those people of diverse ethnic origins were absorbed who came to the New World, often to find refuge, always to find a field for their energy and their imagination. You have remained in many respects a nation of pioneers, and your society retains an exceptional dynamism. To quote Tocqueville, whose thought has been a shaping influence on our liberal society: "The idea of what is new is intimately linked...
...significant. Because this formulation had proved so useful I submitted to the New England Journal a condensed and updated version, intended as a reflective comment for consideration by medical educators at other schools. In this article I did not criticize my school-- indeed, I am very pleased by the progress we are making. In particular, I did not identify Harvard as the school that had finally awarded a diploma to a student who had failed Part I of the National Boards five times. (I would now like to add that the recommendation for a late award of the degree...
...council also passed orders asking Acting City Solicitor Russell Higley to verify the status of the land and report on progress in the city's suit against Harvard for damage claims to the tunnel underpass...