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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month after the critique was issued, it appears to have failed as an instrument of radical reform. At a March 6 Ec 1 staff meeting Gill asked if there was any sentiment for revising the course substantially; only a couple of hands went up. Several of the section men who liked the critique best didn't even bother to attend. Whether the critique succeeded in exposing serious deficiencies in Economics 1 is still an open question...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Ec 1: A Monster Becomes an Institution Everything About Ec 1 Pleases Gill Now Except Gen Ed Status | 4/12/1967 | See Source »

...pillar of liberal strength. On the contrary the leadership is aged, contented and deeply somnambulant. And on important issues of foreign policy its position is well to the rear of Gerald Ford. This is a tragedy and we can only hope that time and a will to reform rather than adversity will work the remedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Galbraith: We Must Build Liberal Strength | 4/10/1967 | See Source »

...rewrite the state's 100-year-old charter, a farrago of archaisms and amendments so cluttered with trivia that it even spells out regulations for off-street parking in Baltimore. The legislature also adopted the state's first billion-dollar budget and passed a long-needed tax-reform measure, replacing the flat 3% state income tax with a graduated levy of from 2% to 5%, which will give Maryland a much-needed revenue boost of $120 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maryland: The Athenian Touch | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...rarely is disrespect shown to teachers. None of the students are permitted to sport Beatle haircuts or far-out clothes. Becker tells them sim ply: "The other students are not in school to look at you. You're here to learn." Schuyler High will even accept potential reform-school candidates. One such student was recommended for enrollment by the Albany police after he had stolen a gun, 800 rounds of ammunition, and had robbed two homes. "Sure we'll take him," said Becker, who promptly sent the boy to work off some of his aggressions under the supervision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools: Academy for Hard Cases | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

Natural Right. Populorum Progressio shifts considerably to the left of previous papal encyclicals in its criticism of private property. In his celebrated Rerum Novarum of 1891, Pope Leo XIII argued that economic reform must take into account "the inviolability of private property"; Pope John's Mater et Magistra likewise termed private ownership "a natural right" of man. Paul, on the other hand, declared that property ownership "does not constitute for anyone an absolute and unconditional right. No one is justified in keeping for his exclusive use what he does not need when others lack necessities. The right to property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Papacy: Populorum Progressio | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

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