Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economic unrest, an atmosphere of revolution, and a genuine hope for the progress of constitutional democracy are the principal facets of the political scene in Argentina, Cuba, and Venezuela, Bertram E. Johanson said last night...
Trickle Down. A little bit of the new trade money has trickled down to East German workers. A West German magazine has compared East Germany's latter-day progress to the West German level of 1949 ("Eat your fill and dress modestly"). This probably gives them now the highest living standard behind the Iron Curtain. The ineffable East German Communist Boss, Walter Ulbricht, a Soviet citizen, now proclaims the inevitable propaganda slogan: "Catch Up with West Germany in Per Capita Production...
Kazantzakis once expressed, in describing a form of spiritual conversion he underwent during a solitary retreat in the mountains: "Since then I have felt ashamed to commit any vulgar act, to lie, to be overcome by fears, because I know that I also have a great responsibility in the progress of the world. I work and think now with certainty, for I know that my contribution, because it follows the profound depths of the universe, will not go lost...
...compare India's economic progress with China's, you will find that India is filling her needs much faster than China," said R. Venkataraman, high official in Madras, India, visiting here this weekend. "Furthermore, China and the Soviet Union never broadcast quantitative statistics, they give you percentages instead...
Last week the Political Committee of the United Nations began discussion of "the Cyprus problem." This is the fifth straight year that the matter has come before the UN; and it would be difficult to find any real progress achieved in all this time. Among the many knotty colonial problems begging for some kind of solution today, Cyprus is certainly one of the most insoluble...