Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achievement ethic was born in "a young and expanding country, a country with justifiable faith in economic progress as a key to social good," Ackerman said. He added that the faith had been eroded by "doubts and fears about the future...
...weeks ago when he condemned the series of assaults up Ap Bia as "both senseless and irresponsible." Senator George McGovern agreed, and last week in a Memorial Day address Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield suggested that critics had not merely the right but also the duty to question the progress of the war. "Areas are won and lost many times," said the majority leader. "Lives are lost but once...
Smelling Like a Rose. The Administration argues plausibly that military pressure must be maintained in Viet Nam in order to assure progress at the peace table-although there is room for dispute about this. The question remains whether the right kind of pressure was presented by the battle for Hamburger Hill: a costly fight for a piece of real estate that was to be abandoned before the blood had hardly dried on it. There are U.S. officers who will privately admit that, given hindsight, Ap Bia should have been handled differently. Perhaps, they say, the 101st moved up too close...
...reputation that lingers is one he went far toward creating during the last few months of his life: war critic, champion of the black and the Mexican-American, crusader for the very young, the very old, and all those who have been shunted aside from social and economic progress. His murder gave a new poignancy-and a new political legitimacy-to the people and the causes he sponsored and sheltered. "His death," said Hubert Humphrey recently, "may very well have changed the whole political direction of the country...
...closest to him seems to have found a partial solution. His partner, Blueboy, a shrewd, gamy con man, will play whatever role the whites expect of him with a comic and cynical flourish. His mistress, Kelly Sims, a college-educated chemist, bravely but quixotically banks her hopes for Negro progress on intellect. His eventual wife, Lila, a wise but unlettered country girl, has the "black granite" endurance that was once popularly thought to be the essential quality of the Negro race...