Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great charisma or excellent family connections. But more often men have been reluctant to regard women as equals, much less as superiors. According to Betty Friedan, whose book The Feminine Mystique established her as the founding mother of women's liberation in the U.S.: "Women have made amazing progress. But they are hardly present in any numbers as leaders...
Significant progress is also being made in Asia, where women have traditionally had low status. In Japan, a fast-growing feminist movement and a sex-blind college-admissions policy are propelling women into politics and business at high levels. In China, sex discrimination is officially considered a reactionary remnant. Though Mao's wife Chiang Ching is the only woman among the 20 regular members of the Politburo, Peking's highest ruling body, a more impressive 40 women belong to the 309-member Central Committee of the Communist Party...
...fact and fiction through which he is attempting to restore to his countrymen the history of Russia since 1914. Solzhenitsyn is also clearly working on the creation of a rich, interlocking literary world that will revive a 19th century conception of man, shorn of his fond hopes for progress, but still a creature endowed with conscience and a soul who has need for piety, loyalty, continuity and simplicity in order to survive...
...more tolerant of the Kremlin. The convergent development of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., though, will not much liberalize Russian society. Like environmentalists here and the economists of the Club of Rome, Solzhenitsyn has also urged his country to turn away from its dream of Western technological progress. Instead, he suggests, it should create in the Northeast territory a vast community in which science might be used to create a way of life closer to the earth, to the customs of ancient Russia...
...little comes of his advice, history may yet judge Solzhenitsyn a success-and not merely in the realm of art. For he is surely one of those towering witnesses thrown up by history (or God) in moments of crisis to remind the world that the pursuit of material progress is no way to the peace that passes understanding. For the first tune, though, that message may concern survival as well as salvation...