Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sources of strength and flexibility for any society. It makes no sense to sacrifice them for a mechanical, barracks unity that may have a certain utility if one's goal is aggressive expansion but has otherwise proved to be a failure. Solzhenitsyn's mistrust of the West, of progress in general, of science and democracy incline him to romanticize a patriarchal way of life and craftsmanship, to expect too much from the Russian Orthodox Church...
...argument was defeated because proponents of Black suffrage had to choose between being hypocrites and extremists. Either way, they would lose the argument, even though their ideas represented an important step in social progress...
...other words, hypocritical viewpoints are essential to progress from wrong ideas to right ideas. Of course, hypocritical viewpoints can also be dangerous because they may set small precedents that lead society to rapid decline...
Whether Harvard's dissociation from ROTC represents progress or decline is an issue that must be debated on its own merits, not analyzed for hypocrisy, because you can never tell whether hypocrisy represents progress or decline...
After reading the article "Taking a Sharp Turn Towards the Right," [May 7] I was first disgusted and then a bit enlightened. There is such a thing as progress. In Nazi Germany, those who were hated were forced to wear labels. Now, people like Sumner Anderson are at least isolating the problem with society. He proposes blue squares. Good. Now it will be those who hate that wear badges. And those of us who remember what labelling and hatred lead to will know precisely where to spit in public. Ivan J. Dominguez...