Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai Stevenson, attacking what he called the Republican slogan of "peace, prosperity and progress," tried a Truman-ism for size: "What peace? Our peace seems to consist of a balance of terror in the world." Stevenson was appalled by the world around him. "NATO has never been so weak ... We have no policy in the Middle East." He quoted Eisenhower as saying at the time of his second-term announcement that some of the presidential work "can now be done by my close associates as well as by myself." Said Adlai: "I could not help but think of that little...
Emphasizing that "We cannot have America without security; and yet it is equally clear that we must almost preserve individual freedom," he pointed out that advocates of both policies were at definite odds but that he felt "we are slowly making some progress back to sound principles in these areas...
...whether or not they are right--and that they do better when they are right all or most of the time. Being allowed to work at their own rate (which Skinner considers to be at least twice as fast on his machine as in the classroom) and to make progress by small steps also aid them. The machine satisfies all these criteria. The last of them, however, presents the real problem for Skinner and his researchers...
...progress of a student could be checked by seeing how many problems he had to answer in order to get each one correct twice. In college a talented student in language coming in on his own time could presumably come in often early in the term, work quickly, and thereby get rid of his requirement...
...drama at Harvard is to progress, it should have the benefits of a modern stage with proper facilities for lighting, staging, music accoustics, rehearsals, dressing rooms, and seating. Although present facilities suffice for Elizabethan or "off-Broadway" types of productions, they cannot accomodate most musicals and modern dramas. The Lowell House Players, for example, have been forced to obtain the talents of a construction agency to hold up their arch and scenery...