Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be his particular baby-Hunt will bring a topnotch administrative ability and a knack for inspiring the people who work for him. In the field of education on a national level, Hunt leaves the specifics to others, thinks in terms of broad policy, good public relations and orderly progress. "It's not enough," he once said, "that each of us recognizes and accepts his personal accountability for teaching. It is essential that we have a clearly stated and accepted philosophy of education that expresses our values and that guides all decisions related to our educational program...
...should be Sultan of Morocco-a French puppet or the man the Moroccans themselves wanted as their Imam (Commander of the Faithful)? Deeper than this ran stronger currents: France's pride of empire, the Moroccans' longing for independence. In this confused situation, the nation that brought modern progress to a sterile land was made to seem oldfashioned, and a backward people's aspirations commanded the sympathies of those who look to the future...
McMaster: That's a good maxim for all walks of life, a good way of running the world: freedom of individual interpretation accompanied by universal cooperation . . . This is progress: learning by past experiences and applying the knowledge toward a fuller life ... a greater tolerance for others who may arrive at their conceptions of God and truth in regions different from our own. The past is like a rear-view mirror of a car. If you drive carefully, observing safety rules, you must refer to it . . To insure [progress, we must insure] the freedom to explore, create, originate and improvise...
Specialists' Hash. Steiger is convinced that architecture has failed to keep pace with technological progress and, as a result, is sacrificing its supremacy in the world abuilding. His answer has been to learn more basic technology himself, and to plug for more emphasis on balanced technological training in architectural schools...
...mock courtroom set up in Philadelphia for the American Bar Association last week, five news photographers busily took more than 300 pictures while a "trial" was in progress. The demonstration was staged by the National Press Photographers Association, which is campaigning to open U.S. courtrooms to news photographers (TIME, June 20). Taking pictures quietly, using high-speed film and other equipment that would not disturb the dignity of a court, the five photographers moved around the courtroom so quietly that many of the 300 lawyers present did not know a test was going...