Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreeing on a multilateral energy program. There is no longer a convergence of national interests among West European nations. As a top Belgian Foreign Ministry official noted last week, "The Germans no longer need Europe, not even economically for its large markets. The French are convinced that any new progress toward unity will only mean a loss of the economic and political advantages they have already won. The British government knows that a majority of its people are against the Community...
...Progress, an update on inactive articles, will be a regular feature...
...what is fact or fiction in Horovitz's plays which contain large autobiographical sections. The most startling, in light of his non-existent Harvard career, is Act I, Scene 5 of a 1971 play entitled "Dr. Hero." The setting: a university board room with an admissions committee meeting in progress. Enter the protagonist, an unloved youth named Hero who will rise to the top using his pushy, arrogant, salesman-like personality. Hero is a college applicant, appearing before the admissions committee to be judged on a ludicrous basis--the ability to name ten Dickens's titles. Hero speaks...
...nostalgic look at the women's movement this month when W.W. Norton issues a tenth anniversary edition of Betty Friedan's best-seller, The Feminine Mystique. Friedan, a recognized founder of the feminist movement, speaks anew in the edition's prologue and epilogue where she assesses the movement's progress since its beginnings...
...present, however, this radical fringe is only a minor worry for Friedan. Of greater importance to her are the predictions of an imminent economic recession which will threaten the progress that women have made up to date...