Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is the provocative thesis of a powerfully argued essay, "Black Progress and Liberal Rhetoric," by Ben Wattenberg and Richard Scammon, that appears in the April issue of Commentary. Presenting a wealth of data, the authors claim that 52% of the nation's black families have by now entered the middle class-a change that is "nothing short of revolutionary...
...false impression, say Wattenberg and Scammon. Most of the violent crime is committed in the slums that upwardly mobile blacks have deserted for better neighborhoods. Without the stabilizing influence of working families, ghettos tend to disintegrate. Unhappy as this situation is, it is part of the price paid for progress. Write the authors: "It would be merely demagogic to pretend that the progress of any group of people can be accomplished all at once and without class fragmentation...
...military force. He acknowledged last month that the largely impoverished Moslems have legitimate grievances and promised them a larger share in his so-called "new society." "We must give the Moslems what they are entitled to -a share not only in government but also in the rewards of our progress." To that end, Marcos pledged more opportunities for young Moslems to study at universities and to enter the Christian-dominated Philippine Military Academy. Last week he also dispatched an engineering battalion to Mindanao to work on electrification projects in Moslem communities. But such gestures may be too little, too late...
...other business, the Faculty members heard a progress report from Robert J. Kiely, associate dean of the Faculty, concerning the freshman year, the three year A.B. and calendar reform...
Galbraith told the panel that he had been guilty of "adolescent error" when he felt, during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that power should be centered in the White House and that Congress was "a collection of nuisances responsive only to special interests and thus an impediment to progress...