"She came from and aspired to a world of light, order and progress — the New Deal".
The Positivist motto on the band, "Ordem e progresso," translates as "Order and progress".
The measure is the childlike feeling which the work rewards, a sense that the world's order and progress are being seen to by sensationally competent adults.
Among several Washington public relations firms recently hired, one sent a film crew to Egypt to shoot some pretty footage of order and progress.
His mother, meanwhile, had a much darker background than "a world of light, order and progress" would suggest, including threateningly sexual interest from her own father.
Through the centralization of power, economy, and belief, it brought order and progress to Europe and provided a framework in which individual energies could once more be channeled to a common end.
Just as many impeachment protesters have wrapped themselves in the national colours, he declared the motto of his new government would be "order and progress" – the Positivist slogan that spans the country's flag.
In Brazil the decentralized old republic, dominated by rural elites, replaced constitutional monarchy in 1889 and took as its motto the positivist slogan "Ordem e progresso" ("Order and progress").
French ideas and symbols were universally equated with self-determination and emancipation from servitude: the Statue of Liberty, the iconic emblem of American-ness, was designed by the French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi; Poland's national anthem celebrated Napoleon Bonaparte, while Brazil's flag bore the motto "order and progress", after Auguste Comte's motto of positivism.
Extolling achievements like Rio's pioneering replanting of its urban forests and the tolerance, however fragile, that characterizes much of Brazilian society, a message emanated from the opening ceremony: Some order and progress, the words optimistically emblazoned on the country's flag, might just emerge from the creative chaos that persists here.
