Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with the Third Avenue "El" and Lincoln Square, this world is to yield to progress. But it will take longer to vanquish the hurdy-gurdy spirit of the pushcart markets, Robert Moses notwithstanding...
Those earnestly seeking to improve and modernize Cambridge should attack all instances of opportunism and profiteering which obstruct progress more than the tenacity of slum areas or the shortage of funds. To move forward, Cambridge must undermine all such schemes to profit by her desire...
...million worth of building materials and technical help toward construction of a hospital, a technological institute, a hotel, a sports arena and an exhibition hall. The agreement requires Burma, as a token of gratitude, to give Russia in return $28 million worth of rice, and so far the only progress made has been leveling of some of the building sites. But. says a Burmese official: "The Russians have been quite amiable in their personal relationships. The British, who built our engineering college and polytechnic institute, were very exacting in matters of personal comfort. They demanded select housing for each family...
Rival politicians were glum at this triumphal progress. Krishna Menon was problem enough when he had only the ear of Nehru; now that he has discovered the knack of getting India's ear as well, he may become a power threat in the Congress Party's annual convention next week in Assam...
...slow movement. The work was so far from the bite and sparkle of Shostakovich's first piano concerto (1933) that no one could decide whether the five-finger exercises with which it ended were an attempt at wit or merely a concession to Maxim's halting progress. But Bernstein piled through the piece just as if it all meant something, looking up from the keyboard occasionally to conduct his orchestra...