Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Dwight Eisenhower came to the heart of his speech: a broad U.S. program for Middle East peace and progress. Its six points...
...boosted segregationist hopes that the Federal Government can successfully be defied. Integration leaders and law-abiding moderates look gloomily toward the beginning of the fifth school year after the Supreme Court decision. The Deep South will generally continue to bar all Negroes; the border states give little promise of progress, plenty of omens of trouble...
...years ago several of the fund-starved colleges pooled their problems (TIME, March 5, 1956), formed the Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges. Last week, at Michigan State University (which, with 20,500 students and unquestioned accreditation, is not a member), the council gathered to talk of progress-in tones loud enough, they hoped, to be heard by the great philanthropists...
Rexall's progress spelled a personal comeback for Justin Dart, ex-wonder boy. When he took over Rexall in 1943 at 36, Dart became the hottest shot in the conservative drug business-until Rexall earnings dipped sharply in 1947. Dart owned up frankly to the board: "I know I look bad now. But before I look better, I'm going to look worse." Sure enough, things got worse...
George Orwell was a pilgrim who hated progress and found an empty shrine at the end of a blind alley called socialism. Famed British Critic V.S. Pritchett has called him "the conscience of his generation." An extremely troubled conscience it was, and Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier does much to explain...