Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MASSACHUSETTS politician once remarked that Harvard makes a very good landmark from which to note the progress of the surrounding institutions. David Henshaw was speaking in 1836; despite ostentatious efforts by Harvard administrators in recent years to change this public image, Henshaw's words are true today. Oddly enough, one of the surrounding institutions that has conspicuously outdistanced Harvard of late is the U.S. government. Last June the Department of Health, Education and Welfare published a set of proposed regulations for the implementation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which forbids discrimination on the basis...
Such talk would probably have brought a haughty sneer from John L. Lewis, the union's legendary leader from 1920 to 1960, whose autocratic legacy still burdens the U.M.W. In his early days, however, Lewis was a mighty force for progress. Only a decade or so before he took over the union, much of the nation's coal was dug by youngsters, some barely into their teens, who labored in appallingly dirty, unsafe conditions for only a pittance. Lewis was the Paul Bunyan of unionism, standing up to companies, courts and even Presidents with fiery bombast. When Franklin...
...outset of their talks that the U.S. still considered it possible to discuss the future of the West Bank with Hussein. The Secretary also told the Israelis that in his view the Arabs, despite the summit, had left themselves an encouraging amount of room for continued negotiations. Any progress toward peace, however, was likely to be slower and more cautious. "We're past the home run hitting stage in the Middle East," one member of Kissinger's party explained. The metaphor might have been lost on Israeli listeners, but the emphasis on "quiet diplomacy" was clear...
...without sharing their oil, or the Africans to excoriate racism without subduing their own racists. In Buckley's fantasy U.N., too, Eastern European representatives would be required to ask Soviet permission every time they rise to speak. Buckley concludes that the world would settle for a little practical progress at the U.N., just for the sake of truth. As the Walter Mitty in him died, a U.N. reformer was born...
Yesterday's statement, which was not officially approved by the majority of the council members, was issued in response to comments made by Rosovsky at a council dinner Thursday night, in which he blamed departmental resistance for the University's slow progress in hiring women faculty members...