Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...U.S.European "Atlantic community" is rapidly evolving into a spirited international rivalry. While the U.S. obviously remains vastly stronger, and Western Europe is still far from a unified world power, the new sense of rivalry is real, not only in trade, but in less tangible matters, including the nature of progress and the good life...
...Europeans, for their part, are generating powerful currents of their own. The dissatisfaction of East bloc nations-colonies in the world's last great empire-with the halting pace of their economic progress was one factor that impelled the Soviets to seek a new accommodation with the West. Perhaps wishfully, many Eastern Europeans now look forward to a period of gradually increased economic and human ties with the prospering West...
Just about the only area where they had not made much progress was sex. Oh, it had been tried. There was that scheme in 1980 under which each family in Europe was to be allocated permits for a certain number of children, and which compelled everyone with an IQ of less than 100 to be sterilized. The IQ tests, of course, were to be administered by computers. There had been an enormous row about it in the European Parliament, and the proposal had been only narrowly defeated...
MOREOVER, THE PROGRESS of human isolation is now complete as well. In Night School, though he loses Sally, Walter remains "connected," if only to his aunts. In Landscape, at least Duff and Beth are physically in the same room. Now, in Silence, each sits in a chair in his own separate area (distinguished by three wooden "floors"), totally isolated from the others, except in flashbacks depicting past relationships...
...though, it has become obvious that the freeze will not only prevent much new building, but will stop many slum-rebuilding projects in midcourse, halting site-clearance work or even actual construction already in progress. Housing officials in some cities move such projects along on the basis of verbal commitments from federal officials. They sign a formal subsidy contract only when the builders are about to begin putting up steel and pouring concrete, or have already begun...