Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regeneration of the Japanese and the Germans, there remained a hope that the Western world had been partly cleansed by World War II. It had clearly brought a recognition of evil back into a world that had been bemused for a hundred years with the idea of automatic, illimitable progress (i.e., heaven by osmosis). The world of 1949 was not one to call forth admiration; but it was no longer a smug world. It had not solved its problems, but it had begun to face them...
...CHESF's engineers, as to most Brazilians, Paulo Afonso's progress is a matter of national pride. Impatient at the delay in getting heavy earth-moving equipment over back roads, CHESF's shirtsleeved, roly-poly President Jose Antonio Alves de Souza told his men to go ahead without it. As his barefooted laborers struggled last week to haul rude, four-handled wooden trays of rock from the darn excavations, Alves de Souza said: "Sure, we've got too many men here now. But we can't just sit and wait for the machinery to come...
Russia's standard claim to vast economic progress got one more ringing refutation last week. After long study, Australian economist Colin Clark documented his conclusion that the rate of Soviet production per man-hour of work was less than one-eighth that of the U.S. "Economic progress in Russia," said Clark, "has been uncertain and slow, and the most recent figures indicate that productivity is now only at about [its] 1900 level...
According to Clark's analysis, whatever industrial progress Russia has made has been largely offset by agricultural stagnation. Soviet productivity, rated in 1900 at .15 IUs (15? worth of goods per man-hour, at U.S. 1925-34 prices), dropped to .10 after the land reforms of 1918-19; it rose to .16 in 1927-28, but forced collectivization of farms in 1928-33 pulled the level down to .12. No Soviet statistics for the war years are available, but by 1947 Soviet productivity had climbed back to .14 IUs, just under the 1900 level. The U.S., on the other...
...mankind of some potential saints, in making their attempts at heroic freedom a failure, and turning their effort to break with the world into a total and servile subservience to the world." Conversely, saints have been the greatest revolutionaries. Maritain contends that for centuries the world's temporal progress was fostered by the saints. It was only during the last hundred-odd years, when the results of the industrial revolution were bringing mankind more & more to social thinking and social action, that the saints dropped from the lead and the atheists took over...