Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find it difficult to understand why Harry Byrd and many other Virginians don't take more pride in their Negro citizens and the progress they have made. I have seen other Southern states, where most of the Negroes seemed dirty and devoid of all social graces, but in Virginia, where I once lived, the average Negro pretty well matched the typical middle-class person anywhere. They are a credit to their state and certainly are not objectionable as fellow students for anyone else's children...
...great advantage would lie in the fact that it would enable each student to work at his own rate of speed. Able students, previously held back because teachers have to devote extra time to slower pupils, could, with one of Skinner's devices, progress independently of both the teacher and the rest of the class...
...unique in southern Quebec because its inhabitants never see much of the French-speaking Canadians, who surround them on every side. Georgeville looks much like a Vermont village because its original settlers came from New England, bringing with them their traditions of conservatism, content with slow and steady progress, and scorn for over-indulgence. Their descendents generally have upheld these affections, leaning not toward Vermont, a scant ten or so miles across rocky, easy, moulded hills, but toward English-speaking Canada. In architecture, the village has preserved the colonial tradition introduced by its founder, Moses Copp, in 1797; in attitude...
After the May 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in public schools, most Southern newspapers played up stories of anti-integration violence, but shied away from the more significant story of desegregation's quiet progress (TIME, Jan. 17, 1955). But the Southern press is changing its ways. Last week Don Shoemaker, onetime editor of the Asheville, N.C. Citizen, who heads the nonprofit, nonpolitical Southern Education Reporting Service, said that "objectivity is clearly on the rise" in Southern news columns...
...years following the gift, Lowell took an intense personal interest in the construction of the new houses. Not content with second hand reports, he would take daily strolls around the grounds to note the progress for himself...