Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Profit and Progress...
...three years later, he is "very unhappy with the lack of progress in that direction...
...then, was responsible for Kronstadt? Avrich never attempts to solve the riddle, but it seems that the beginning of an answer is at hand. Those forces which attempted to set back Soviet Russia, to retard her economic and political progress, to make her life and her people's lives as wretched and unendurable as possible, are the real villains of the episode. To set the blame, one must look first to the Tsarists and the Allied powers who fired the opening shots of the civil war itself, who attacked what had begun as a new human experiment, a genuinely popular...
...have simply ignored the process of aging. Says Harvard's Erik Erikson: "It is astonishing to behold how (until quite recently and with a few notable exceptions) Western psychology has avoided looking at the whole of life. As our world image is a one-way street to never-ending progress, interrupted only by small and big catastrophes, our lives are to be one-way streets to success - and sudden oblivion." But lately Erikson and oth,er psychiatrists have become interested in all stages of man's development, and the "aging" that goes on at every stage...
...using a private dealer to handle the sale, the Comtesse Attems followed the lead of many another titled owner who wished to dispose of ancestral holdings without the unseemly fuss of a public exhibition. The progress of her drawings through Slatkin's hands to their eventual resting place was typical of a private dealer's transactions. "We are the matchmakers of the art world," says Dealer Harold Diamond, who is himself so discreet that he refuses to disclose the names of any of his customers or sources. They are the middlemen who arrange the transfer of precious works...