Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President noted in his proclamation, "the endurance and stability of our democracy, as we prepare once more for an orderly transition of authority." The country avoided extremism and the constitutional crisis of a deadlock in the Electoral College. Despite apathy, the U.S. may now be spurred to reform the archaic laws that could permit such a crisis to develop in a future election...
Myrdal listed reform of the nations' population control programs, land distribution, and unequal economic systems as crucial to the task of building viable governments, but these measures could only come from within the nations, he said...
...couldn't come up with a solution. Finally, they turned it over to Dean Ford and asked him to make a decision. This shows the structural limitation inherent in the COH. The Masters feel fierce competition among thesemlves as representatives of the different Houses. They evaluate each proposed social reform in terms of how it will affect their own House's "prestige" or "position" vis-a-vis the other Houses. Since each proposal which comes before the Committee is bound to "lower" some Houses and "elevate" others, no issue stands a chance of generating the kind of unity necessary...
...limitation explains why the COH deals with small problems rather than policy decisions. When a decision-making body can't even reach a consensus on the few issues thrust upon it by the rapidly changing outside world, the question of the ability of that body to initiate meaningful farsighted reform becomes irrelevant. The city of Cambridge would have to enter the Twilight Zone before the COH as presently constructed would ever initiate any of the social reforms so obviously desired at Harvard College...
Second, we must transfer more initiative for reform to local and community groups. Aggrieved individuals can more easily approach a local agency governing education, poverty, or law enforcement. More important, an agency with first-hand knowledge of a city can deal more efficiently and wisely with its problems than can lockstep reform from Washington. New Haven's enlightened urban renewal, for example, has been slowed down by the legislative morass of Federal aid programs. Goodwin wants to establish minimum Federal standards to prevent abuse, but then, give money to the cities and let them work...