Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite deep currents of dissatisfaction, educational reform has been an outstanding non-issue among undergraduates during the past year and over the four years of the Class of '74's life at Harvard. Undergraduates in general have confined themselves to private mutterings. And the vocal minority has tended to regard issues of departmental requirements and organization or the "quality" and "ethical content" of undergraduate courses as liberal distractions from the task of scrutinizing Harvard's involvement in activities outside university walls. With ample justification student activists have seen CUE's activities as involving little more than endless pettifogging over calendar...
...them was Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 50, publisher of the weekly L 'Express and self-styled French new frontiersman, who after many years of unsuccessfully striving to project himself as a Gallic John Kennedy, has at last found a national role; as Giscard's Minister of Reform, a new post, he will have a chance to try out his long-advocated proposals for giving more power and authority to local and regional government. Jean Lecanuet, 54, another centrist leader with somewhat more real political clout than J.J. S.-S., was given the sensitive Justice Ministry. Giscard is likely...
...some men, including Belfrage, it took courage to speak out. It was easy to agree, during the fifties, that while the "heretics" might not be blameless, their punishments far outweighed their crimes. Certainly, their inquisitors represented a reactionary force, while the "heretics," for the most part, advocated social reform and perhaps social revolution. What's more, innocent bystanders suffered--because McCarthy, McCarran and their cohorts, especially on the local level, rarely exercised a surgeon's care in excising the red sores from the body politic...
...said that big business needed fundamental reform. Now 54% feel this is an important concern...
...Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) will try to present a letter from the Harvard Corporation as evidence in licensing hearings later this month for an Arkansas power plant...