Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ultimately, the New Leftists, like all Utopians, not only want to reform society: they really want to reform human nature. They want men to work not for gain or glory but for the satisfaction of contributing to the general good. In a broad sense, the movement is not political at all but religious. "We want to create a world in which love is more possible," says an S.D.S leader, Carl Oglesby. For all their rant and naivete, the New Radicals can sound strongly appealing. The fact that many of their proposals are impractical and that they lack a program...
...bright, intellectual class of officers who are strongly influenced by the tenets of Comtian and Spencerian Positivism.* In a land that is being torn by a struggle between tradition and modernization, the army-frequently accused of being right wing-is actually a major vehicle for reform...
Costa has made a point that he will vigorously push "all measures that increase agriculture and cattle production, as well as raise productivity." To expand Brazil's backward agriculture, he plans to step up the pace of a two-year-old land-reform program, aimed at extending credit to small farmers, providing them with technical guidance and breaking up the country's huge estates. It will be a much harder and longer task to eradicate the inevitable result of Brazil's farm troubles: the sprawling belts of poverty and misery throughout the countryside, where 50% of Brazil...
...violin, piano and orchestra, including a propagandistic Longing for Home that became the signature tune for the regular Red broadcasts beamed at Taiwan. He was at peace with the Red regime until last June, when he and some 500 other cultural leaders were caught in the net of "thought reform," as part of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chinese army officers forced Ma and his colleagues to clean toilets and break stones in the morning, study the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung and write "confessions" till late at night-an exercise that lasted 50 days. Allowed to return...
...reflect the desire of Party Boss János Kádár, the country's real ruler, to strengthen his own position. Kádár, who called back the Russian tanks during the 1956 uprising in Hungary, has shrewdly conciliated the voices of economic reform in recent years. He knows that in order to dampen opposition within his own party, he must placate the westward-looking economists, who lament the central decision making that has succeeded mostly in leaving Hungary in debt and its people clamoring for a better life...