Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week, President Eisenhower motored down to Washington from his Gettysburg retreat for his monthly physical checkup. Since the third week of convalescence from his heart attack, the President's doctors had reported nothing but cheerful news and steady progress, and Ike, in an ebullient mood, had every reason to expect another green light. Instead, after a two-hour examination at Walter Reed Army Hospital, the doctors flashed a caution signal. The President, they said, was showing signs of fatigue. His heart may be slightly enlarged. The period of convalescence would be extended, and for the next...
...here, no more than they should make the mistake that I endorse them. They are here, and they must be dealt with. It is all very well to be in Cambridge and say, "Segregation is bad: end it," but I assure you that it does absolutely no good for progress in Mississippi, and that whether you like it or not, you must work within the racial framework already existing here, and created long before the Court even considered discarding "separate but equal...
...urging the University against any substantial increase in College enrollment, Harris agreed fundamentally with Dean Bender, who said last week that expansion "would almost certainly move us in the opposite direction" from enlightened educational progress. Like Harris, Bender observed that "a strong case can be made for expanding the Graduate School instead of the College...
Among other forms of Marxist progress, the Communist Revolution brought Russia "voluntary motherhood." A 1920 law permitted Soviet hospitals to perform abortions without charge. Business got so heavy that women queued up in some of the bigger hospitals. Abortions were soon rivaling births in some Soviet cities, and a small fee was charged for the service. Alarmed at this drainage of its manpower, Russia banned abortions in 1936 except for strictly therapeutic reasons...
This scene bustles with false, as well as real, progress. The "protest" novel, as Author Baldwin sees it, is a signpost of false progress: "So far from being disturbing [it] is an accepted and comforting aspect of the American scene . . . We receive a very definite thrill of virtue from the fact that we are reading such a book at all . . . 'As long as such books are being published,' an American liberal once said to me, 'everything will be all right.' " Far from dignifying the humanity that lies more than skin-deep, these books straitjacket the Negro...