Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...seen from Moscow, every silver lining has a cloud. There was something distinctly sour, even ominous, about last week's May Day demonstrations in Red Square. Some banners demanded faster and bolder progress toward a free market (A NEW SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORDER NOW!), while others warned that resistance is already building to the hardships reform will entail, especially inflation and unemployment (FOOD IS NOT A LUXURY, PROTECT OUR JOBS!). Mikhail Gorbachev, who must reconcile that contradiction in the months ahead, left the reviewing stand atop Lenin's tomb, as jeers rose from the crowd below...
...Hasn't human progress brought us to a point where technology might cause our own extinction...
...says Hertzberg, American Jews "tried to pretend to themselves that the Likud were a bunch of tough-minded businessmen like their uncles who asked for the maximum price and would settle eventually for something less -- but higher than they'd get otherwise." But after years of no progress toward settling the Palestinian question, a more disturbing realization has set in. Says Hertzberg: "Now we are facing the fact that these Likud fellows -- Begin and Shamir and ((Ariel)) Sharon and their likes -- are not reasonable fellows who want the maximum deal, but nationalist ideologues who will pay great, incalculable prices...