Word: reformations
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Religious Hotbed. What brings out the fanatic in some Iranians these days is the Shah's "White Revolution," so called because he hopes to implement it without bloodshed. In a desperate effort to bring his country into the 20th century, the Shah has worked to introduce 1) land reform, 2) nationalization of the nation's forests, 3) sale of government factories to private businessmen, 4) profit sharing for workers, 5) amended electoral laws, and 6) mass education in 80% illiterate Iran through a national "literacy corps...
...other campuses, students are seeking to reform discriminatory practices allegedly practiced by the college administration. At Haverford, a letter to the college paper proposed that the college admit Negroes to fill 11 per cent of the incoming class, the national percentage, instead of the current one per cent. Writing to the Columbia Spectator one student decried the university's practice of purchasing slum buildings for the alleged purpose of "de-integrating" them...
Numerous conciliatory and liaison bodies have sprung up as a salve for all this agitation. Student groups for "university reform" have appeared at Illinois State, Michigan State, Farleigh Dickenson, and several West Virginia colleges. Faculty-student groups organized for "rapport" between the factions have been established at the University of Utah, Florida State, and Midland College in Nebraska...
Brown said that out of this new interpretation has grown a consensus among many Catholic scholars and clerics that the Church must meet all that is justified in the Protestant protests and thus neutralize them. The Catholics, Brown said, are now acting on the original Protestant demands for reform of the Pope's Curia, removal of the Papacy from politics, and revision of the Mass...
...assistant professor of History and literature. Weinberg teaches Social Sciences 114, a seminar on 'The American ninetieth Century." He is a specialist in labor reform movements of the ninetieth and twentieth centuries and has senior tutor since...