Word: reformations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stupidity would reach the conscience of the nation and bring pressure to bear on the government. The experience in the south, where nonviolent demonstrations clearly distinguished the forces of evil from the forces of rightness, encouraged students to believe that the government could be prodded into substantive social reform. There was still hope that the Administration would negotiate some solution to the war, or that public opinion might once again be mobilized...
...moderates, particularly in altering the course of the war, has caused many to become far more concerned with the "system" itself--the total distribution of power. If the power structure would not yield to reasonable demands and if real authority was somehow masked, then those who sought to gain reform would have to first figure out how the system worked. The most important goal would be to alter the distribution of power, rather than achieve immediate substantive ends...
Because of the prominence of integration in revealing the problems of core-city education, many plans for reform have aimed at desegregation as a primary goal. One recent proposal seeks to combat the exodus of whites from core cities by expanding school systems to include white suburbs. Proponents of such "metropolitan" school districts contend that larger systems would open better suburban schools to Negro and Puerto Rican students and would provide the numbers of whites needed to achieve integration...
Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting and the Radcliffe College Council are alarmingly consistent when it comes to squashing student efforts at reform of pre-conceived plans for the college. It was no surprise, then, when the College Council last week tabled or rejected all the recommendations submitted by the student-Faculty Ad Hoc Committee on Housing...
...center of a poetic renaissance. Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom, fathers of the "New Criticism," had done much to impose form and coherence on the gaseous and self-indulgent free-verse fashion of the time. Thus Lowell at 20 found himself at a reform school-poetic reform. When he arrived "ardent and eccentric...