Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...require federal action for implementation. But the principle, as far as law goes, has been won, and new tactics are required. Pressing for extremes now is not likely to achieve a synthesis at all; it is much more likely to produce a violent reaction that could obliterate all the progress to date. Press for moderate goals, we say, and win them...
...most entertaining feature of the afternoon was the public address system, hopefully blurting out progress reports on the loading of the orange "shuttle buses...
Still, warned Ike: "The goals we have set for ourselves have not been reached. But progress has been made ... we know that these goals are not achieved all at once. Mankind moves forward by little steps ... if we never lose sight of that goal and every step takes us one inch closer to it, then that is progress. We are carrying a torch. We are carrying a fire. We are not carrying ashes...
...Psychiatrists since Freud have been busy doing for man's morals what Darwin and Huxley did for his pedigree." complained one of Britain's most respected economists and sociologists last week. This may or may not be progress, but to Economist Barbara Wootton, now a magistrate in London's juvenile courts, it presents a serious problem. In Twentieth Century she writes...
...perfect damsite in view, the American forgets his promise and tells of his hopes. In Old Pebble's view, the engineer has cursed the junk, and murdered the river in effigy with his plans. And to the American, Old Pebble is an annoying boulder in the path of progress. The two are locked in their petty feud when the river takes an awesome hand in its own destiny, leaving the American chastened and wiser...