Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to the way the declining Roman emperors had taken Rome's mind off its troubles with gladiators and spectacles; he was disturbed, he said, that the Republicans might be trying to fob off Eisenhower upon "a docile, complacent, carefree people all happily chanting 'Peace, Prosperity and Progress-ain't it wonderful.' " Candidate Stevenson obviously felt he had a point: little outward concern was shown by the nation as a whole for the problems of its parts (in drought-dried Holton, Kans. last week 300 people prayed in the courthouse square for rain); nor was there...
...Korean and Indo-Chinese wars have ended, he pointed out, our budget has gradually been balanced and, progress has been made in civil rights, with the capital and the armed services pointing the way. He also noted that the controls over our economy have gradually been lessened, the danger of inflation has been removed, Germany has been brought into the NATO alliance, and Japan has gained in economic stature...
...boycott, of course, had nothing to do with schools. But if some of the principles of Montgomery could be applied to educational integration, slow but lasting progress is likely to result. And, indeed, slow progress is all that can be hoped for. This is not to say that the NAACP should not continue putting test cases through the local courts: it should. Nor is it to say that the U.S. Justice Department has been diligent in prosecuting violations of civil rights: it has not. Nor is it to argue that the President has exhibited the warm creative leadership that...
...prevailing belief of most Americans, North and South. He brought the Atlanta crowd to its feet with wild cheering when he dramatically said: "In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to human progress." The endorsement by a Negro of social inequality gave it a force that it might not otherwise have had. The year after his speech the United States Supreme Court, following the precedent of several lower federal courts and rulings of the Interstate Commerce Commission, sanctioned for the first time...
...program for the defense of academic freedom now seems clearer than at any time in the recent past. No longer need attention focus so exclusively on court cases, although cases still in progress must be fought vigorously and new victims defended. But now, while there is a lull, for whatever reason, in the attack on academic freedom, major attention should be turned to securing the repeal and withdrawal of restrictive statutes and regulations, the cloak of due process under which the attackers of academic freedom operate. The best way to achieve this would seem to be for liberals to develop...