Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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VIET NAM. The U.S. will continue the program outlined in Nixon's Nov. 3 speech and seek peace in Southeast Asia through two means-Vietnamization and negotiation. The U.S., Nixon reports, has made progress at the former, but not at the latter. Nor does Nixon see any signs of an impending Paris breakthrough, though he remains cautiously hopeful. By implication, Nixon's steadfast support for the present Saigon regime prevents any realistic hope of negotiation. Still, the President insists that the U.S. is ready to negotiate on any point but self-determination for the people of South Viet...
...Herostrattis has a story, but no plot, at least if we conceive of plot as progress. In the Greek legend ??? burnt down the temple of Artemis at Ephesens to gain ever-lasting fame. In Levy's retelling Max, the protagonist, sick of the "crap-heap" and the guardians of the nation's institutions who have us "hopping around like jumping beans," decides to kill himself, and takes his intention to an ad agency. He offers the head of the agency. one Farson, the chance to handle his suicide in any way he sees...
...What happens when they start losing a company here and a company there, or maybe a battalion? Will the whole force crack? That's a question we can't answer. We can only hope. But I have my doubts. I think the most hopeful sign is the progress of the RFs and PFs [Regional Forces and Popular Forces, responsible for defending their home districts]. The very fact that you don't hear them called "Ruff-Puffs" so much any more is encouraging...
Filmed by David Sawyer over a period of 18 months at the Delaware Valley Mental Health Foundation, Voices traces the painful progress-and sometimes the even more painful regression -of five supposedly hopeless mental patients. It opens on a staff-patient touch-football game in which a doctor pokes one of the patients and says: "You'll get out of here when you're well and not before...
...penetrate their penumbra of fear. A doctor wrestles violently with a suicidal 14-year-old boy to try to make him accept the reality of contact. When a psychotic young woman refuses to respond, the same doctor sits on her stomach and shouts: "You're making the least progress of anyone here!" Then he soothes her in decidedly un-Freudian fashion. "When those voices tell you to do away with yourself, give them this." And he shows her the arm-and-finger gesture of contempt...