Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard at setting that tone for his fateful meeting with the leaders of the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France: he would seek peace, but he would not sacrifice principle. He briefed congressional leaders on how he proposed to employ that philosophy at Geneva, and he promised them "frequent progress reports" through cables to Vice President Richard Nixon. Late into one night he sat with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in the second-floor study of the White House, where Abraham Lincoln used to read the Bible every morning before breakfast, and finished battening down the U.S. position...
...summit was approached, the men who will meet there were clarifying their objectives (see box). Said the Soviet Union's Bulganin: "The lessening of tension should be the aim of this conference." Said Britain's Sir Anthony Eden: "It is reasonable to look for real, if modest, progress." The President of the U.S. was more cautious. "We ... go there with very hopeful attitudes," said Dwight Eisenhower, "but that hope has got to have greater food on which to nourish itself before it can become anything like expectation...
...Enlightenment, with its faith in man's essential goodness, had been an age of hope: man freed from his chains was to progress irresistibly toward a better and better world. In the ruins left by World War II and all it taught of the evil in man, the Men of Reason became the Men of Despair. Cried Camus: "Confronted by Hitler's terror, what values did we have that could comfort us and which we could oppose to his negation? None. What was happening was coming from man himself. We could not deny it. We saw it confirmed...
Lowest Point. Aoki's colony was making quiet progress when the islanders were suddenly aroused by a Japanese plan to build a leprosarium on Okinawa. They burned the lumber for the buildings, finally forced Tokyo to postpone the plan. Then an enterprising newspaper printed a story about Aoki's work, and nearby farmers marched on the colony, pulled the huts down with ropes (they were afraid to touch the boards) and burned them. Aoki's small band got until sundown to get off Okinawa. They fled by boat to an uninhabited island off the coast to start...
...country are remarkably alike: both are healthy, determined and confident, but there is a nagging case of bursitis now and then, and always the possibility of indigestion. As for the President, there is every indication that he is thriving on the job, and believes that he is making progress...