Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ludicrously) earnest, rarely succumbing to the traditional ethnic appeals of New York politics. He talked of his recent move to New York honestly, with none of the coyness or hypocrisy most politicians display in answering embarrassing questions. I found his candor refreshing, his interest sincere, and his support of reform within the Democratic party encouraging. This was before Albany...
They failed to destroy Wagner in Albany, but doubtless they will try again. For if the Kennedy coalition can substantially curb his influence, they will be able to reduce the power of the groups that support him--the Liberal party, the majority of the reform movement, and organized labor. Then they can divide the party into a series of feudal baronies, each county leader independent of the other, all owing allegiance to Kennedy. New York will have been transformed into another Massachusetts...
Pike said that the way to reform the church is to teach truth instead of making the church an instrument through which it is "the guardian of condemnation." Pike called for a church that would emphasize the "certainty of the closeness of God, to all individuals, be they Christian or non-sectarian." As of now, Pike thinks, the church acts as an organization which simply suppresses everything...
...Reform Efforts...
...Today, P.J. Honey, ed.), by Oliver B. Clubb (The U.S. & the Sino-Soviet Bloc in Southeast Asia), and others that the North Vietnamese regime refused to support the struggle of the Viet Cong which began in 1957 in response to Diem's repressive policies, in particular, the bogus land reform. Thus, support was not forthcoming until 1960. Since, by this time, the U.S. had violated every principle of the 1954 Geneva Agreements, the limited support in the form of political cadres and a small trickle of supplies can only with extreme difficulty be defined as aggression...