Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Meaning no ill will to the residents of Pinole, hurrah for the snakes [June 29J. I see them as one more sign that nature, despite man's insistence on squelching out, in the name of progress, every living thing that stands in his way, can be conquered only as man himself is annihilated. Nature, however, is just. That no one succumbed to the venom suggests to me the peaceful ways of most living things other than man. No, I do not see the snakes as seeking revenge (justified though they may be) upon the bulldozer, but as serpents coming...
Meeting in Denver last week, the Education Commission of the States supplied some preliminary answers by releasing the first results of an ambitious project called the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Designed to "fill a gap about what groups of Americans know and can do," the ongoing survey may well prove a substantial boon to the nation's primary-and secondary-school curriculum planners...
Despite such progress, however, previous P.R.I, governments have been criticized for failing to improve the life of the Mexican peasant. The regime of outgoing President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz has also been attacked for its handling of the Mexico City riots that preceded the 1968 Olympic Games. When police and soldiers shot at least 33 people to death and wounded 500 others, Diaz Ordaz's enemies charged that the President's "guided democracy" was really a dictatorship. More than 100 students arrested for rioting are in prison, some still awaiting trial...
...schools as they now do of the police. As he put it with typical candor in a recent Senate hearing: "Our criminal-justice system is a failure. We are not preventing crime, we are not apprehending and convicting enough offenders, we are not rehabilitating enough convicts." Until significant progress is made in each of these areas, Wilson believes, it is Pollyannaish to expect a decrease in the crime rate. In fact, the only realistic outlook is for an increase...
...painting only when he was 22. He married, had three children and emphasized to interviewers that he lived an entirely ordinary, suburban life. Outwardly he was reserved, cautious, methodical-in style of life the lawyer still. He could be diffident to the point of anguish about a work in progress. Despite the anguish, how he did work: twelve hours a day nearly every day for 60 years...