Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN Ed School students and Faculty fled Cambridge and the summer heat last June, a lot of them weren't sure exactly what they'd be returning to in the fall. The death of Martin Luther King had set off what appeared to be a tidal wave of reform at the school of Education. The Faculty had voted to fund the studies of minority group students, fifty of whom were recruited by late May. Dean Theodore R. Sizer received a comprehensive mandate from the Faculty for reforming the Ed School's urban program, and with tradition everywhere in retreat, groups...
...asks what he is being punished for, the prison governor replies that he was a Gestapo agent who burned down a Russian village, raped Russian girls and murdered innumerable Russian babies. "Wasn't he sentenced to be hanged?" exclaims Eleanor. "No," is the straight-faced reply. "We hope to reform...
...seats, or "mandates," for a total of 125 and their first absolute majority in the chamber since 1940. The party had not really expected such a showing. The Social Democrats had taken gloomy pre-election forecasts seriously enough to cast about for new gimmicks in a country where social reform seems to have gone about as far as it can go, and taxes about as high (in addition to income taxes averaging 30%, Swedes pay a painful 11% sales tax on all retail purchases). Last week Economics Minister Krister Wickman announced the Cabinet's intention to begin putting...
Security clearances have no place in the undergraduate curriculum. It is good to see them gone and encouraging that Harvard administrators could so quickly convince ROTC officials to revise their program. But a reform like this one is too safe to get excited over...
...California--or give up and form a new party. This hasn't been very effective in the past because liberals, whether because of their suburban anti-partisan phobia or for some other reason, continually shy away from the drudgery of precinct-leaderdom. In Pennsylvania and New York significant reform groups have risen many times, but they never worked long enough to bring about a permanent change in the style of their state's politics...