Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right after World War II, the private eye replaced the cowboy as hero, in the eyes of the average white middle class man on the street. The heroic image had changed with the environment--increasing urbanization, progress, etc. But this didn't stop certain filmmakers from making Westerns. Ford and Peckinpah continued making good Westerns, but did it by altering their concepts; Ford by turning inward, studying "the American's struggle between self-destruction and life affirmation," to quote John Landau in the latest Rolling Stone; Peckinpah reacted similarly, by examining the end of the Old West...
...architectural showpiece, a soaring monument to the dead, is mockingly called the "great vertical runway" - not because it leads straight to heaven, but because it is made of concrete diverted from an airport improvement project. Yet for all its oddities, Vientiane is the only Southeast Asian capital where real progress is currently being made toward ending hostilities...
BERNARD WEISSBOURD, 51, lawyer turned iconoclastic developer. President of Chicago-based firm, Metropolitan Structures, which has $3.5 billion of work in progress, most of it notable for design quality. Included are new towns near Aurora, Ill., and Montreal, redevelopment in downtown Baltimore and a billion-dollar apartment-office-store complex near Chicago's Loop. Delights in challenging accepted notions. Example: favors replacing homeowners' income tax deductions for mortgage interest payments - a "regressive subsidy," he says - with direct subsidies from Washington...
...Grass often answers with a disarming "ah yes but my party is a party of snails." Collecting snails--this is the hobby of the fictional personification of Doubt in Nazi Germany, a character, also called Hermann Ott, in Grass's book. Melancholia and the achievement of political "stasis in progress" are two of the themes which dignify the image of the snail into high symbolism. What better emblem could a writer offer for the Jew reluctantly leaving his homeland in the Germany of the thirties than that of the humble snail, bearing his house on his back...
Revolutionary Activist violence had to take this new development into account. No longer could repression for progress merely be directed against bankers and landowners. There were new potential enemies, masses of them. An Activist revolutionary scenario would have to contain the expected fascist reaction. Now repression might well have to be employed against small farmers and shop-owners and Portuguese peasant soldiers...