Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coalition's meetings--usually held Monday nights at the Catholic Student Center, 20 Arrow Street--draw about 25 people. Despite the crawling pace of the group's progress, however, organizers like Munro seem to plan no cutbacks in their efforts. "If enough response comes from the people, supposedly according to democracy the people will prevail," she said...
...choice of Korea for the conference site was no mere geographical courtesy. While Pentecostalism is spreading like a spiritual wildfire around the world, its progress in Asia is particularly remarkable. Much of the boom has been in Korea, where only 90 years ago the penalty for being a Christian was death...
...progress of From the Diary of a Snail is all too consistent with the author's snail principles. On the way to almost any point, the reader is likely to get a favorite recipe from Chef Grass (simmered tripe with caraway seeds) or a growling epithet on Hegel: "Thanks to his subtlety, every abuse of state power has to this day been explained as historically necessary." Another snail detour documents the diaspora of the Jews of Grass's native Danzig during World War II. Here the narration seems to match the sinister creeping pace of anti-Semitism...
Tired, sobered down, almost choking over his "on-the-one-hand, on-the-other" game plan, Grass still has more endurance, wit, sheer cantankerousness than a pair of polarized extremists half his age. "What's progress?" he asks stubbornly (and who else would have the courage and humor to use that old-fashioned word in the age of apocalypse...
...this in that it all had to be started from a small basement office." (Mayman's temporary headquarters here is the old Radcliffe College Marshall's office in Agassiz.) Mayman left the BSO after a year however because as she put it, "I didn't feel that I could progress any longer in that job or become more competent or gain a broader range of experience...