Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Generally they prefer the status quo. Departmental chairmanships are not, to put it discretely, the University's most popular jobs. They involve all sorts of administrative trivia. Those who take them do so stoically, imbued more with a sense of duty than with any real zeal for reform. As a result, the departments, which control the bulk of every students's education, are headed by men with little time or energy to think about students--or education...
...explained that McNamara "is a very bad advisor for President Johnson because he has very little understanding of South Vietnam's basic problems. A certain form of humanitarian socialism is essential. If you fear this word socialism, call it what you will. Essentially it is a profound social reform, beginning with agrarian reform." Pham's letter indicated that here at last was an alternative to the string of despots which the U.S. has supported in Saigon. Here was a liberal with a strong military background who might have resolved the dissident elements in Vietnamese politics...
...real problem in Vietnam is far more significant than personal disputes or the short-sightedness of American political advisors. The rural population has long resented the hegemony of Saigon over their affairs. Contrary to many leftist critics in this country, land reform is not the pressing need in Vietnam, for the large majority of the peasants do own their own land. The central problems lies in the exorbitant taxation policies of the central government coupled with immense corruption in Saigon...
...corollary duty, the bishops, at the suggestion of the council's leaders, aired their views on a proposed reform of that ancient issue, the granting and gaining of indulgences. The resulting discussion reminded the world that this extraordinary set of spiritual transactions is still in force...
Andre Daulere, lecturer on economics and education, stayed is new Delhi last summer advising the commission on economic aspects of reform...