Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson coach Ray Essick said afterwards he used the meet primarily to evaluate the team's progress after three weeks of rigorous training in Puerto Rico over the Christmas holiday...
...steelworkers, mineworkers, communications and electrical workers, East and Gulf Coast longshoremen, aerospace workers and railroad employees) come up for negotiation or reopening this year. The most significant bargaining, between the nation's ten biggest steel companies and 375,000 members of the United Steelworkers union, is already in progress. Last year, in what was hailed as the start of a new era in labor-management relations, the union and the companies agreed to submit to binding arbitration any unresolved bargaining issues in order to avoid strikes or expensive stalemates. Already, however, union members are insisting that the guaranteed wage...
Allen's subject may be futuristic, but his method of attacking it links him with the grand tradition of silent comedy. Like such masters of that tradition as Chaplin and Keaton, he deplores the notion that things can be improved through scientific and political "progress." Like them, he obviously believes it his unsolemn duty to subvert such nonsense. Sleeper is his definitive assault on it. And his funniest...
...subject, Hakozaki is also designing a special manual for the art of brush writing, which poses particular problems for lefthanded schoolchildren. Though Hakozaki sees a "long uphill battle" ahead for his movement, there are indications that the prejudice against lefthanders is beginning to ease. One sign of progress is a record that has become one of Japan's top ten hits. Its title: My Boy Friend Is a Lefty...
...Fromm does not agree with B.F. Skinner's plans for altering man through altering society. "Skinner," he writes, "recommends the hell of the isolated, manipulated man of the cybernetic age as the heaven of progress." According to Fromm, reinforcing peaceful behavior is not enough unless the reinforcers take into account Freud's discovery that the forces driving man are often unconscious. In spite of the emphasis he puts on man's passions and unconscious drives, Fromm believes that the most important determinant of a man's character is society. Echoing arguments he has sprinkled throughout...