Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self. Ebullient Carey McWilliams, 60, will remain as editor; the other half dozen full-time staffers will also stay on the job in the magazine's dowdy Greenwich Village office. Typically acerbic articles are in the works on the federal antipoverty program, the State Department, Latin American land reform and the Viet Nam war, a special worry of Storrow's. "It is no time for government by consensus," he declares. "That tends to turn into government by apathy or government by automation, where anything can go unquestioned...
...selective service system probably will not be corrected until the war in Vietnam is resolved. The standards which local boards apply in granting deferments and exemptions may be imprecise and inequitable; they may waste human resources and stimulate a "draft-evasion mentality." But until the fighting ends, any major reform would risk undermining the morale of soldiers previously drafted, who might consider themselves the victims of an unfair system. Reorganizing the entire structure -- from the local boards up -- would create a period of confusion and uncertainty, further impairing the war effort and this country's position in Vietnam...
Improving this system of quotas and reports by introducing more extensive computerization, fuller descriptions of men in the draft pool, and closer supervision of state decisions would eliminate many of the geographical discrepancies which plague the present system. This increase in accuracy and efficiency would require no major reform or expenditure. It would result, rather, from ad hoc revisions, made within the framework of existing procedure. The cost of the innovations would be minor compared to the damage which the present system will produce if allowed to continue unimproved...
...novel should reform itself by drawing upon its ancient Aeschylean and tragic heritage," he wrote to his publisher. "There are a thousand writers who can draw adequate characters till all is blue for one who can tell you anything new about hell fire." Lowry set out to do just that. Most modern men do not believe in hell because they have not been there. Lowry did, because he had been there. He also believed in a number of other unmodern things-that "life is a forest of symbols," in fate, destiny, demons and spells, numerology and divination by study...
...four long essays that make up the better part of this book, Historian Richard Hofstadter (The Age of Reform) briskly traces the history of political paranoia in the U.S., and wittily examines the political pathology that produced and sustained the legend of the Great Conspiracy. He concludes, somewhat magisterially, that the nomination of Senator Goldwater was the "triumphal moment of pseudo-conservatism in American politics," and finds that the ironic result was that Goldwater's "campaign broke the back of our postwar practical conservatism...