Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said the Administrative Board has discussed reform of its procedures along the lines suggested by the Harvard Undergraduate Council, but "this is not a matter we're going to be able to settle in a hurry." The Board will consult the Masters and perhaps the full Faculty before making a decision...
...very point of his article "New Styles in Leftism" in the Summer Dissent was to attack the trend of the radical student movements. Moreover, both he and Mr. Lowenstein spoke in favor of a political coalition of labor, the churches, Negroes, and intellectuals to continue the movement toward reform that has distinguished post-Eisenhower politics. Both Mr. Booth and Mr. Maher, the latter explicitly, questioned the possibility of such coalitional politics. Your article gave the impression that the Forum was simply a debate about tactics of protesting Vietnam, but in fact the entire nature of American politics was at issue...
Booth also finds the general SDS character more prone to argument, debate, and the intellectual side of reform than to the dirty work of action and organization. The membership is so caught up in the spirit of the movement that it forgets its immediate objectives. To Paul Booth these questions are no longer academic; he plans to make SDS his vocation...
...soldiers would be required to keep the country "in order." The economy would be in shambles from years of devastation; thousands would be without food. Hostility among the population would force the U.S. to rely on familiar cliques of embattled generals, out of touch with the citizenry. Social reform, by the very necessity of an authoritarian response to the ubiquitous guerrilla threat, would be nearly impossible...
...Venezuela, primitive farms produce an average of two bushels of corn per acre, compared with 67 bushels on modern U.S. farms. Traditionally, holders of large estates do not cultivate more than necessary to earn an income suitable to their social status. But, as Bolivia and Mexico have discovered, land-reform programs that carve up productive estates into family-sized plots for often unskilled peasants generally lead to sharp drops in food output...