Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ralph Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies evoke a specific place or mood, among them the choral "Sea" Symphony, the matchless "London" Symphony and the gentle "Pastoral" Symphony. Others, like the exquisite Fifth Symphony, quote from the British composer's other works (in this case, the opera The Pilgrim's Progress). His Seventh Symphony, the "Antartica," does both. It began as music for the 1948 movie Scott of the Antarctic, and a few years later was transformed into a five-movement work. However suspect its origins as a film score, the "Antartica" is a rumbling, frightening opus, summoning up the terror...
...seems that many Americans miss the fundamental point about South Africa: there is a struggle for liberation in progress, and any and every action that is taken in that country is a political action. Americans have only two choices in South Africa: they may work with the system of white hegemony over education, the economy, and the press; or they may respond to the calls of popular Black movements for the political, economic, and cultural ostracism of South Africa, and they may give money, and media support to the freedom struggle...
...sacrifice of your loved ones has stirred the soul of our nation, and, through the pain, our hearts have been opened to a profound truth," said the President. "The future is not free; the story of all human progress is one of a struggle against all odds. We learned again that this America was built on heroism and noble sacrifice. It was built by men and women like our seven star voyagers, who answered a call beyond duty." After paying individual tributes to each member of the crew, the President declared, "Dick, Mike, Judy, El, Ron, Greg and Christa--your...
...charge of the search and called upon two aircraft "crash detectives" from the National Transportation Safety Board - for help. The NTSB experts, more experienced than the space agency in reconstructing accidents, will assist in building a "fault tree": a split- second, item-by-item analysis of the flight's progress, as portrayed by telemetry, voice recordings, eyewitnesses, photographs and videotape. With NASA and industry engineers, the NTSB investigators, like paleontologists trying to reconstruct a dinosaur, will piece together every available scrap of Challenger debris--the same procedure they follow in investigating an aircraft crash. Says one former NASA scientist...
...time strict orders were issued against looting, along with a threat to shoot offenders. For the most part, the orderly soldiers of his National Resistance Army obeyed. That alone impressed many observers. The Presidents of neighboring Kenya, Zaire and Rwanda issued a joint communique expressing their satisfaction with the progress the Museveni government had made toward restoring peace and security in Uganda...