Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harris poll last week showed that 79% of the nation favors electoral reform. Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh has scheduled Senate subcommittee hearings for January on a constitutional amendment providing for direct popular election of the President and Vice President. New York's Emanuel Celler will hold similar hearings in the House. "We have flirted," said Bayh, "with the most dangerous constitutional crisis faced by the United States in a long time...
...could be something totally different: a response to a particular political order and the grievances it engenders. If symbols gibe with certain psychological needs, it may also be true that particular kinds of political order cultivate certain psychological states. The lot of the Chinese student (as efforts to reform the educational system indicate) was not an easy one. Like society as a whole, the Chinese educational structure has been arbitrary in the extreme and rigidly ideological in orientation. China has been so gutted with students that many are being sent back to do agricultural labor because there are not enough...
...facing death, Mao has evidently lost his contempt for it, and fears the collapse of his vision and the loss of his life's work. Mao's vision has turned on him, out of control. It has undermined the party, while failing to achieve its total reform of Chinese society. It has tried to remake human nature and failed. It may not destroy China or even Chinese Communism, but his radical effort has brought China...
This sentiment is paradoxical considering that the HUC currently is having its most fruitful year. And as the student body becomes more radical, the HUC, with some major reforms, should be able to lead and organize future movements for University reform. To commit suicide now would be to throw away a viable instrument for turning student demands into concrete action...
...Senator Joseph S. Clark. A prosperous tile manufacturer and a Schwenkfelder-a member of one of Pennsylvania's "plain" sects-Schweiker, 42, does not smoke, rarely drinks, and then only wine. A self-styled moderate, he is an outspoken civil rights champion and an earnest advocate of draft reform...