Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buttonhook Service" in the Pushbutton Age was indeed a great service to your readers. However, I wonder if we were not closer to "the perfect, unbreakable machine" back in 1950 than we are now. Are we not losing ground? Is progress in reverse gear? As Groucho Marx once said to the woman who was approaching 40: "From which side?" The only dependable gadgets in my home are the old ones. Why could we build such quality in years past and not today? Who sabotaged...
...Peace, progress and prosperity" has been a continuing-and unassailable-accomplishment as well as a slogan of the Eisenhower Administration. After Russia's Sputnik flashed across the sky, and after the stock market plunged, progress suddenly seemed-in headlines, at least-the sole property of the Russians. Turning to Washington for reassurance, the U.S. saw administrative confusion, sensed a crisis in leadership and demanded action...
...railroads, once fearsomely modern, were pleasantly passe. The automobile had crowded out the train as an everyday means of transportation, though people found that owning a car brought headaches as well as freedom, not to mention flat tires. Some of them (never very many) wondered if this kind of progress was really an improvement...
...achievement far too frequently turns out to be the very reverse of what we wanted: the second-year man under our system of traditional courses, examinations and grades emerges a puzzled fellow indeed, rapidly losing any feeling of his own progress or coming to mistrust the yardstick by which progress is measured...
Until we substitute practical considerations and actions for what appears to be an attitude of hostile morality, we can make no progress towards stable relations with the Middle East...