Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always been a hot topic in certain circles, but, especially with President Clinton's recent call for a national dialogue on race, race rhetoric seems to be taking on unprecedented proportions. In particular, we hear more frequently how pervasive and over-whelming racism is today and how much progress has yet to be made. I imagine these are claims that confuse and make uncomfortable many white Americans (in as much as they are implicated as the guilty party). Confuse because there seems to be such a vast disparity between where blacks are today and where they once were that complaints...
...question voiced in the most recent Radcliffe Quarterly, which features a discussion on race at Harvard-Radcliffe. The panelists included author Abigail Thernstrom, who feels that blacks, and liberals in general, are entirely too pessimistic about the issue of race in America. She argues that statistics on the progress of blacks prove that the "we still have a long ways to go" attitude is unfounded. Things have changed, and in a few years, with blacks being educated at higher levels and in greater numbers, this will be even more evident than it already is. According to her, there aren...
Since I am not in a position to question Thernstrom's statistical measures on the economic and educational advancement of blacks, the progress of black Americans is something I can gauge only by my own experiences. I sit here, a student at Harvard, the product of two parents who have yet to earn college degrees. It is likely that the job offers I might receive as a Harvard graduate will have starting salaries well over the combined income of my mother and father, who together supported a family of five. From this perspective, Thernstrom's argument appears to be legitimate...
...typical of the U.S.'s massive superiority complex. The plan by the U.S. to slap sanctions on European companies that trade with Iran is abhorrent. What right has America to intervene in the new liberalization of Middle Eastern trade? Is the U.S. trying to upset the promising progress being made by Khatami? The U.S. has done a lot for nations having difficulty moving into an era of openness and democracy, but it is time for the U.S. to drop its Big Brother routine and assume the role of passive bystander. Only time will mend the Middle Eastern autocracy. DANIEL FURNER...
NASA's geezer-in-space program starring Senator John Glenn holds many benefits for American society [SPACE, Jan. 26]. The ultimate political junket, this program could entice Senators such as Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms to leave terra firma, giving us respite from their earthly resistance to progress. C. "JACK" BEECHER West Swanzey...