Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dominant, if not majority, party after November. The Republicans sought to seize the moment and exploit it to the utmost. Somehow, though their efforts came across only as exploitation. They lacked the genuine touch which permeated Miami Beach during the Democratic Convention. And whether they really do seek progress or not--a question left unsettled by their Convention behavior--the Republicans have backed into a campaign which will pit the slick media front born of big money against the grass-roots tactics of a hazily-etched, emerging political camp...
...Improvement of parking facilities. Parking for the expected avalance of tourists will be provided largely by a lot, possibly underground, on the Library site. A $225,000 study is also currently in progress to explore the desirability of an underground garage at the Cambridge Common...
...corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets, into a shopping mall. The mall, to be named "The Garage," will contain specially and craft shops and spread over half a block, it pedestrian walk will connect Boylston St. to Dunster St. Work on The Garage has been in progress since winter, and the mail should open for occupancy this fall...
...Saigon whose class erupted when, having finished discussing Machiavelli, he went on to the ideas of Montesquieu. "What do you mean," the students demanded, "teaching us one thing one day and one thing the next?" Similarly, the Vietnamese do not naturally imagine, let alone yearn for, change or progress. Even their conception of the supernatural is a shadow version of present reality. FitzGerald compares it to "one of those strange metaphysical puzzles of Borges: 'An entire community imagines another one which, though magical and otherworldly, looks, detail for detail, like itself...
...called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic." Digging behind all the grotesque, realistic "Gone-with-the-Tobacco-Road" cliches, slowly and painstakingly detailing the ambiguous Southern actuality-this has been Robert Coles' work in progress for more than a decade. In the three volumes of his Children of Crisis series, completed earlier this year, he has documented, mostly in their own words, the destinies of families mainly from the rural Southeast...