Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporters of the indicted say that the court succeeded in what they feel was its prime objective--to politicize and arrest the progress advocates of legalized abortion have made in Boston...
Nonetheless, the OWE's summary of its first year reveals a number of studies completed or in progress, and several projects that will form the basis of the office's work in the future. Because this work ranges from studies on the academic fields in which women concentrate to an afternoon session on "crimes against women," from investigating the amount of prize money available to women to hosting a special national conference of women historians next fall, the immediate question is, what does "women's education" mean to Radcliffe administrators...
...Kissinger again considers breaking off the talks as progress lags on "thinning out" of forces...
...fine, wrote his columns and sometimes even played tennis. But he went through an ordeal of uncertainty, savagely ranging between hope and despair. Out of that ordeal he wrote his memorable book, Stay of Execution, an almost classic deathbed testament that is partly day-by-day diary of the progress and recession of a deadly disease, partly reflections and recollections of the good life he had had and was leaving. Inspired by it, people wrote Alsop from all over the world. Last week Stewart Alsop died, only nine days past the celebration of his 60th birthday...
...author wisely does not predict where man's skills will take him. As a scientist, he recognizes that human progress is governed by the same uncertainty principle that applies to the movement of electrons. Science can specify where a moving electron is at any given moment, but cannot tell where the electron started from or where it will stop. Nor can science be any more exact when it comes to man. His origins are shrouded in mystery. All that is certain is that man is still evolving and, if the past is really a prologue, ascending. · Peter Stoler