Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crusty, authoritarian craft unionist, was dogmatically anti-Communist in foreign affairs and staunchly standpat about civil rights at home. As top vice president, the idealistic, garrulous Reuther, 59, onetime boy wonder of the industrial unionists, tried to nudge the labor movement into the vanguard of social reform and international bridge building. Not only has Reuther failed to get his way, it is now also obvious that he has abandoned all hope of succeeding Meany at the helm...
...ignoring the rank-in-class issue and focusing on 2-S, the Harvard Faculty deviated from this pattern. It got bogged down in a jurisdictional dispute, and ended by rejecting a proposal that smacked too much of political protest and not enough of academic reform...
...problem. The United Church of Christ will hear the findings of a two-year study at its General Synod in June, and the Episcopal Church last year launched a major investigation of its seminary education. Feilding notes that a few seminaries already "are taking bold and effective steps" to reform. For example, Chicago Theological Seminary, which is affiliated with the United Church, has thrown out its first-year classes in favor of intensive courses "to introduce the student to the concrete study of the problem of the contemporary church in the midst of changing social structures...
...term U.S. Congressman who was one of the first to jump aboard the Kennedy bandwagon when he pressured New York delegates into supporting J.F.K.'s nomination for President at the 1960 convention, later backed Bobby for U.S. Senator, but lost his own congressional seat to a Reform Democrat in 1964 and spent his last years petulantly flailing away at the "amateurs," "stiffs" and "Johnny-come-late-lies" who were wresting party control from him; of lung cancer; in the Bronx...
...good citizens of the District of Columbia had better take cover," snapped Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. Thanks to the new Federal Bail Reform Act, he was releasing eleven criminal defendants on nothing more than their own promise to show up for trial later...