Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...negotiations four months ago, Ambassador William J. Porter has totally changed the once patient and restrained U.S. style in Paris-not by negotiating, but simply by talking tough. The result has been a verbal offensive that has startled the Communists. It is unlikely that this will bring about any progress, but it has changed the atmosphere and cheered the 19-member U.S. delegation, for whatever that is worth...
...going to developing nations. The results, though, have fallen short of Hoffman's goal of raising the per capita gross national product of developing countries by 5% per year over the decade (the actual increase has been around 2.5%), partly because population has more than kept pace with progress...
Given his schedule and deadline pressure, Baker does a remarkable job freshening overworked subjects. On the myth of progress, for example, he observed that the Wright brothers' first flight went 120 ft., "which is the length of the line you wait in today to get your baggage." History proves a perishable item when a father, failing to convince his son of the patriotic emotion released by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, concedes that it was a day that "really hasn't survived in infamy as well as we thought it would...
...right. But the passion for God, like other passions, obeys certain plot patterns-all subject to certain beginnings, middles and ends. The kindling, the cooling and the rekindling of the Quakers is the present theme of Dutch Novelist-Playwright Jan de Hartog. In this first of two novels in progress, he takes the history of the Religious Society of Friends from Cromwell's England, 1652, to Pennsylvania, 1755, and the brink of the French-Indian war. The Peaceable Kingdom fs clumsily written. Nevertheless De Hartog, a Friend himself, has managed to indicate the range of religious experience, from...
...difficulty. While asserting that Stalin's rise to power was not inevitable and that Stalinism was a "disease," he also knows that the disease raged for more than a quarter of a century and that Soviet society is still not healthy. That Stalin could divert the inevitable progress of history for so long and so catastrophically does not fit easily into even Medvedev's very refined Marxist framework...