Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months ago (after a coup against erratic President José María Velasco Ibarra), Arosemena came from an aristocratic family of bankers and landowners. His father was Acting President from 1947 to 1948. He himself had been elected Vice President in 1960, was known as an intelligent, reform-minded individualist. But he was also well known as a powerful man with a bottle-and in office the binges seemed to have grown more frequent. For days at a time, he failed to show up at his office in the palace. In November, he kicked up a royal fuss...
...employers. If the phrase 'equality of opportunity' is to be more than a figure of speech in Britain today, this discrimination must go." Aristocrats already "open their houses to the public at a small charge," added Swan. If they want to prove their interest in social reform, they need only consider "a slight extension of the services normally provided...
Though Sean Lemass is often chided in Parliament for foot-dragging on housing and farm reform, most of the nation's problems are a longtime legacy of national poverty and political timidity. What is radiantly different about Ireland today is the serious expectation that its ills and lags will in fact be corrected. Lemass will soon release details of a new six-year economic program that aims to boost the G.N.P...
...more enthusiastic about his work than some of his fellow Jews are. Since he does not follow the detailed rules of the Halakah in his daily life and scorns the narrow legalism of the Talmudic law, he has been mercilessly criticized by Orthodox rabbis as a heretic. Some Reform Jews, on the other hand, feel that Buber has romanticized the Hasidic movement and overemphasized the importance of this unique sect for modern Judaism. And even among Jews who accept the principles of his "life of dialogue," some are shocked that onetime Zionist Buber has spent more than 40 years working...
...President gets a New Englander who speaks blunt English and fluent French, the language of the South Vietnamese leaders, and can be expected to use both effectively whether smoothing U.S. relations with President Ngo Dinh Diem or prodding Diem's reluctant government into some political and financial reform. Along with a good man for the job, Kennedy gets a political bonus. Lodge's assignment will remove him from the G.O.P. team in next year's presidential campaign and will also make Republicans think twice before attacking Administration policy in troublesome South Viet...