Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Impressed by the progress of Nazi Germany's air machine, and equally appalled by the lack of preparedness in Britain and France, Lindbergh in 1941 joined America First, an isolationist group, in urging the U.S. to stay out of the war. Britain and France were doomed, he said, and Germany and the Soviet Union would eventually destroy each other. Though he immediately volunteered for service after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt would not forgive his earlier opposition to America's policy of helping the Allies, and he refused him a uniform. As a civilian consultant to the War Department...
...once director). The statistic-laden result is a selective celebration of American achievement, particularly in the past decade, designed to hammer home one basic message: "The dominant rhetoric of our time is a rhetoric of failure, guilt and crisis. The evidence of Ihe data is the evidence of progress, growth and success." Improvement has been so rapid in recent years, says Wattenberg, that for the first time in history America has created a society that is predominantly (74%) "middle class." "The emergence of this Massive Majority Middle Class," he argues, "is a benchmark of major historical importance, and ils ramifications...
Sunny Side. On page after page, Wallenberg repeats the refrain that is his definition of progress: "It is better by far than what it replaces." Focusing on the sunny side of modern society, he minimizes the clouds by looking only at their silver linings. The General Motors assembly line at Lordstown, Ohio, may be boring and dehumanizing, but it uses fewer workers to turn out more cars than earlier plants, thereby freeing other workers for more interesting jobs. Thus, Wallenberg insists, "the significance of Lordstown is in who doesn't work there." Wilh a similar cavalier indifference that would...
...sessions, says John M. Martin, chairman of Hercules Inc., a chemical producer based in Wilmington, Del., "many of our managers are weighing factors they had not given real attention to before, such as considering women for outside sales jobs." Realizing that women's own attitudes may block their progress, Boyle and Kirkman also conduct awareness sessions among female employees. After one session at Hercules, a woman echoed the comic-strip character Pogo: "We have seen the enemy, and it is us." Should Boyle and Kirkman succeed completely in changing the male attitude toward women workers, they would put themselves...
...athlete, your predecessors have done some major advance work for you just within the last year. Athletics proved to be an ominous testing ground for full merger, but the result is that women's sports are better financed now and that some progress is being made towards sharing facilities and decent practice times. Even though Harvard still equates the seriousness of a Radcliffe athletic team with its successes, equality of athletic opportunity is not such an impossible dream...