Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairmanship of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.] We don't rule out Geneva at a point, but we do feel that in the interim before we go to Geneva, or they do reconvene Geneva on an active basis, we ought to try and make some other additional progress on a step-by-step basis...
...They are very, very serious. They get more serious every day that we don't get some action for further progress in the settlement of some of those disputes. Every day that passes becomes more dangerous...
...everything except that. We have often made commitments that we consider Israel a necessary state in the Middle East, both as to integrity of territory and its existence. I wouldn't rule out [a guarantee] under some circumstances, but there has to be, in my judgment, some real progress there before that step would be taken...
While peace in the Middle East will not necessarily lead to a price reduction of oil, it would enormously reduce the obstacles to consumer-producer cooperation. A far more important consideration is that the alternative to progress toward peace is the likelihood, if not the inevitability, of a new war. The consequences could be nuclear, and might well involve the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
There have been times in the history of art when progress stopped-a kind of eddy, a period of confusion. Today seems just such a time with the artist, like Matthew Arnold's traveler, "wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born...