Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACSR is discussing the plant in response to a request last fall from the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now that Harvard uses its stockholder influence to pressure Arkansas Power and Light, the company building the plant, to install special sulfur dioxide emission controls on the plant's smokestacks...
...said, however, that organized resistance to the repressive policies of the present regime still exists. Although there is no armed opposition, a number of small groups have continued to disseminate reform-oriented propaganda, he added...
...English 166. What's more, friends say, he believes that in retrospect both actions were probably unwise. But above all, he feels he has been singled out for attack for actions which are considered commonplace at Harvard, and that these attacks will only hurt the cause of liberal education reform he feels he stands...
...sees his attempts at educational reform as a duty worth the added burdens. He perceives a serious disjunction at Harvard between ideals and reality and believes that if he doesn't try to change it, he is approving of it by acquiescence. According to one friend, his attitude is: If I don't do it, I can't expect anyone else...
...PROOF that a desire for reform. and not ambition, is behind his administrative rise, Kiely tells friends he has turned down several other attractive administrative offers. He was considered for the headmastership of a prestigious prep school, but told the selection committee he wasn't interested. When President Bok and Dean Rosovsky tentatively floated the idea of Kiely's taking on a provost-like position at Harvard, Kiely said he didn't want...