Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...racism is a curious one. More than that, however, Maddox and Allen seem to have ignored the trend of U.S. history since 1865. America is moving away from its institutionalized prejudice, not toward it. The pace may vary, obstacles may still be in place, but the direction is unmistakeable. Progress can only be hampered, though, by the blind, irresponsible hypocrisy demonstrated by Maddox and Allen. Allen R. Barton...
...just consider what happened to the Native Americans. On a much smaller scale, there is the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, during which the U.S. Public Health Service, working with black-controlled Tuskegee Institute and other agencies, deliberately withheld treatment from 400 Alabama blacks between 1932 and 1972 to study the progress of a disease whose course was already well known...
...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...
...cast of characters is larger, the moral positions less clear-cut, the progress not always forward. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers move their desegregation campaign to Northern cities like Chicago, but with mixed success. Black Panther leaders like Huey Newton and Bobby Seale sound as threatening as the white racists they oppose. Riots break out in Watts, Detroit, and Attica prison. Meanwhile, the nation undergoes a virtual revolution of race consciousness. Negroes are transformed into blacks, Afro hairstyles become a political statement, and the rise of a sassy young heavyweight named Cassius Clay has reverberations...