Word: progress
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...dean said the school has already made some progress in this respect, pointing to a new course on gender in politics. But he agreed that such efforts are not enough, and that the school should include more women as role models in its classroom case studies and continue to recruit new women faculty members...
...book's tone is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's novels never fasten down on a specific moment in time and progress from there. Some of his more memorable characters are the couple on airplane in Cat's Cradle, who boast that they are Hoosiers. Natural, comfortable feelings of closeness are never present in these novels, whose characters find satisfaction only in artificial, relatively cold institutions...
...dark humor and feeling of emotional, distinctly Southern, emptiness and dissatisfaction are the strong points of The Best There Ever Was. Unfortunately, the novel is chiefly about these feelings and not about novelistic progress. Bradley does not take us anywhere. We are left lingering in Gravely's depressing town. It is more an aimless series of incidents, each of which emits these tones...
Smith drives the potentially confusing narrative with such clarity that it all reads like an eyewitness account. Despite his optimism, he identifies obstacles to progress: an economy nearing collapse, violent nationalism and separatism, an obstructionist bureaucracy, a lackadaisical Russian attitude toward work, a "culture of envy." In spite of all that, he expects the patient, durable Russians to muddle through, with some setbacks, toward a democratic future 20 or 30 years away. What we have already seen he counts as nothing less than the second Russian Revolution...
...programs. Promising experiments like Miami's 17-month-old drug court, which has had success in keeping first-time drug offenders out of further trouble by forcing them to accept treatment, got no financial help from the state. Even the Governor's office finds it hard to point to progress in Florida's effort to curb drug...