Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistrusting the President, the President mistrusting intellectuals -that has short-circuited communications between the two. Eric Goldman resigned largely because he felt that Johnson did not really use him or even listen to him. If his concrete accomplishments seem slender-staging the White House Festival of the Arts, urging reform of the country's archaic draft machinery, counseling Johnson to give a respectful ear to the voices of national dissent-it may well be that Goldman was not permitted to do more...
...with the Butcher. The other world was evoked first by Claude Brown, 28, a forceful, outspoken Negro who at age five saw his father slit a man's throat, later spent time in reform school after peddling heroin in his Harlem neighborhood. Now a Rutgers University law student, Brown is the author of the bestselling Manchild in the Promised Land, an account of a Harlem peopled by pimps, prostitutes and dope pushers. In such an environment, he told the Senators, men are emasculated not only by unemployment but also by the related fact that "Mamma is having sexual relationships...
...senses and his scientific observations all indicate that time always flows forward for particles and for any process in which they are involved. When a radioactive atom disintegrates into subatomic particles, the particles never reunite to reform the original atom. The universe itself is apparently expanding and radiating its energy into space like an unwinding clock...
When Brazil's army overthrew Leftist João Goulart in 1964, the generals declared war on Communism, corruption and - it would almost seem - the Roman Catholic Church. Fearful that Brazil's liberal, reform-minded church was spreading agitation in the depressed Northeast, the generals hauled in priests and bishops alike for questioning, forced several into "voluntary" exile, and cracked down on such "subversive" church organizations as labor syndicates and classes to teach adults to read...
Another hopeful sign is the widespread awareness of the need for further improvement. Last month Chile observed a national "University Reform Week," and Brazil's National Education Council recently proposed a law requiring the country's 18 federal universities to present plans for reorganization or lose federal funds. Until these programs bear results, concludes Alberto Lleras Camargo, former President of Colombia, Latin American schools will continue "on a chaotic path that is almost classic in the world-universities of authorities without authority and students who do not want to study, locked in a constant and sterile battle...