Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter which will be mailed to all first-year and middle-management students, the executive board of the Association disclosed that men had been illegally discussing exam questions in small groups while the case examinations were still in progress...
This discovery marks, not as some immediately imagined, something strikingly new on the local scene, but rather another step in an age-old unceasing struggle--that between man's progress and the single sculler on the Charles River...
...first idea for the AACA came from several unsolicited letters of people who had observed the progress of Sorokin's present Research Center at the University...
...since the war the U.S. has stood more or less speechless before mankind, unable "to breathe life into what we ourselves believe," the failure is not merely one of propaganda, political warfare or communication-it lies in America's own philosophical tradition, in its unlimited faith in material progress and its excessive optimism about human nature. Faith, not so much in pure science, but in social doctrines that falsely lay claim to being scientific-Davenport aptly calls them metascience-led Western man to apply mere quantitative measurements to all things. Marxism, as Davenport analyzes it, is grounded in just...
...Overwhelming Task. There are vital differences between Davenport and others who have had similar insights. Dissatisfaction with military and economic weapons does not lead him to conclude that such weapons should be abandoned: "Without them the entire free world would be exposed." Distrust of the faith in progress does not lead him to assert that it should be discarded, for it has "become vital to the health-indeed to the survival-of modern civilization . . . In terms of human destiny we are committed to the optimistic tradition." It is America's special task-"of truly overwhelming proportions"-to find...