Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prime-hour TV audience estimated at 65 million-was a pragmatic, sometimes prosaic outline of legislative aims tempered both to the conservative climate of Capitol Hill and the economic realities of a society that is inextricably involved in a costly war abroad while deeply committed to social reform at home...
Much of Western Europe has been seized by a fervor to expand higher education and to reform it along U.S. lines-interdisciplinary cooperation, more full professors, rotating departmental command. Italy's current five-year plan calls for a reorganization of universities, now beset with frequent strikes by students and teaching assistants. Many Europeans hope to emulate what a Common Market Eurocrat calls "the magic American mobility between campus, government and industry...
...same reform spirit is spreading to other areas. The Netherlands has raised its scientific-research budget by 45% over the past two years. British industry has just rented a "brain train" to tour university cities and woo reluctant engineering and science graduates. There is serious talk about untangling Europe's thicket of loosely drawn patent laws and providing new incentives for formation of Europe-wide companies. Prime Minister Wilson recently suggested the creation of a European Technological Community to pool the products of its science and laboratories. But Europe's postwar record at this type of cooperation...
Still other ex-sisters insist that they left precisely because their orders were not moving fast enough on the road to post-counciliar reform. "There seemed to be such great conservatism and such lack of promise from updating my community," says one former nun, "that I felt there was no point in waiting for the next 50 years." Many spiritual rebels who have left the convent did so in the conviction that they could serve Christ far more effectively in secular life. Unless the orders accelerate the pace of change, believes Sister Jean Reidy of the Sisters of Humility...
...even as Chancellor Roger W. Heyns met with student representatives at his home, there were indications that the organizers of last month's five-day strike -- many of them non-students -- will not be satisfied with mere reform...