Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carry through such reforms, the country's new Premier, Oldřich Černík, 46, organized a new Cabinet of forward-looking moderates who are unlikely to revert to the old ways. Among the members are such men as Interior Minister Josef Pavel, 59, and Defense Minister Martin Dzur, 48. Both of these new ministers were purged in the past and served stiff prison terms. The new Minister of Culture and Information, urbane, polished former Editor Miroslav Galuška, 45, is a favorite of the country's liberal writers, who were the catalysts of reform...
...Force for Reform...
...undeniable that all through history, violence has been the chief means of social reform. Even primitive Christians, proclaiming love, destroyed pagan temples to dramatize their cause. The Boston Tea Party had the same purpose. The 13th century King John's Magna Carta illustrated the oldest inducement for social reform: fear of "revolution or worse." To his credit, Marx argued against violence until societies were really ripe for change; most Western European labor terrorism disappeared as a result. But in romantic countries, including the U.S., revolutionary violence often became a mystique for purging feelings of inferiority. Explains Brandeis University Sociologist...
...problems is an encouraging start at making the School's activities more relevant to the urban crisis. But the Faculty should avoid too much self-congratuation. While its vote represented Harvard's first positive reaction to last week's urban explosion, crucial gaps remain in the sweeping proposals for reform...
Besides the change in admissions policy, the Faculty voted a moratorium on classes as a first step in reforming its urban-related curricula. Curriculum reform is important: the Ed School has a responsibility to make sure it provides teachers with a good grasp of ghetto realities. But the Ed School could produce more as well as better teachers for ghetto classrooms by recruiting white students interested in urban teaching...