Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...unity in global outlook, but no progress on autonomy...
...decision to request a postponement of the Senate debate on ratification of the SALT treaty could spell the end not just of SALT II but of the prospects for SALT III, the SALT process as a whole, and the array of lesser arms-control negotiations in which progress has often depended on the SALT bellwether. Among them: talks on banning underground nuclear testing, antisatellite, chemical and radiological weapons, and on the demilitarization of the Indian Ocean. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott analyzes the possible consequences...
...words, of "decorating a rigid, rectangular surface." Others, like Maurice Denis, wanted to restore art to the primacy as religious utterance that it had enjoyed before the deluge of 1789: "Lord," Denis exclaimed in his diary in 1889?the year the Eiffel Tower, symbol of materialist progress, was built?"we are a group of young people, devotees of the symbol, misunderstood by a world which mocks us Mystics! Lord, I pray you, may our reign come!" The desire for coherent symbols ?religious, mystical, anything but political?was as important a part of the early modernist program as the desire...
...popular uprising, of course, takes the from of the public's refusal to patronize these arts, a tactic that, given today's tight supply on arts funding from government, foundations and corporations, is virtually certain to eventually succeed. Already progress is visible: architects, for instance, abandoned the traditional steel-and-glass box for more human structures years ago. Some very recent classical composers, in the tradition of Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn, have made greater efforts to have their music evoke emotional responses than has been the case for much of this century. A few months ago, several leading rock artists unselfishly...
...judge last year's performance on the Hill? "That's like asking a man to critique his wife," said one of the President's top aides. "The question is always, 'Compared with what?' Compared one way, what they did, the Congress made pretty outstanding progress this past session. Compared another way, what they should have done, it was pretty poor." By most measures, that assessment would add up to a "gentleman's C" grade-at best...