Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> The civil rights acts of 1964, 1965 and 1968, the most important legislative attacks on racial inequality since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
Little reconstruction has begun because many insurance companies have been slow at settling the larger damage claims. Most property insurance covered wind, rain, or lightning damage, but not destruction caused by high tides or waves. Former homeowners and businessmen are caught between the precise wording of their insurance policies and...
Sir: Your recent Essay "Charisma" [Oct. 17] was splendid and timely, but I must take issue with your characterization of Clement Atlee's postwar government in Britain as "dull, bureaucratic but quintessentially normal." The Atlee regime inaugurated six years of the most far-reaching social reconstruction in British history...
But lightning bolts and burning huts alone will not long illuminate nor eliminate the systemic flaws in American society. The radical reconstruction of a socio-economic order requires both what Marcuse calls "the critical theory of society" and an enduring and expanding radical movement within society to carry theory into...
In short, the university is a necessary condition for sustained radical analysis of American society and for strong radical movements to undertake its reconstruction; to diminish the university with reckless and witless attacks, with violence for the hell of it, is to diminish our radical future.