Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, there's something hopeful about a hideous past. Though our great intelligence and our elaborate "moral" sentiments were created solely for the purpose of genetic proliferation and not for true edification, they now interact in strange and unpredicted ways, and the occasional burst of moral progress breaks through. People like Jesus and Buddha come along and say radical things that somehow stick in the world's consciousness. And the most animal of institutions--such as slavery--do seem slowly to die out. Who knows where this could lead? Personally, I'd rather see Eden on the horizon--however dimly...
...think the [initiatives] have made some real progress," Wald says...
...saddened by Christopher McFadden's editorial "Quilts and the Moral Fabric" (Oct. 17). I respect his right to express his opinions, however much I may disagree with them, for as he says, dialogue is essential to progress. However, McFadden's depiction of AIDS as a homosexual disease troubled me; by now he should know that the epidemic is much more complicated than that...
...response to criticism of the current administration, Chmura pointed to "good progress in recent years...
...Vertigo, a man makes too much of a woman, and he loses. In Seinfeld, a man makes too much of himself, and he loses. This is the progress of romance in the past 40 years...