Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts in this case are as they seem to be, this Ladejinsky firing is just one more example of how we are losing our security in the name of security . . . Unless all the pundits I have read so far were dead wrong, Ladejinsky-and MacArthur-in the land reform program in Japan were on the right track. Now, wasn't this dismissal of the mastermind of the program a colossal mistake...
...Mendès-France and his followers, however, the change seems a way to upset party strangle holds and prepare the way to the new "grouping of the left" which Mendèsites prescribe for a healthier, more dependable France (TIME, Jan. 10). But French governments that propose electoral reforms have a way of disappearing before the reform puts in an appearance...
...most political centers. By working solely from these two facts, some liberals on the Faculty and elsewhere came to a conclusion which was long to prove embarrassing to President Conant. More important, the dropping of Sweezy and the other instructor in the case, J. Raymond Walsh, forced a reform in the University's appointment system in one of the few instances that the Harvard Faculty has rebelled against its Administration...
...door. Overnight a remarkable change takes place: by dawn the young man has shed his drab finales and pale timidity for a West Coast sport coat and a jut-jawed aggressiveness. This action is marked by an exchange of witticisms which in places would hardly do credit to a reform school stag. For authors Theodore Hirsch and Jeanette Patton, this may be high comedy. More nearly, it is a wake over comedy's grave...
Olga is only 20 but already an Ibsen-type "New Woman," independent, intelligent, indefatigable. She thinks she can reform Oblomov. He tramps the hills with her, reads poetry to her, and resolves to salvage his wasted life. But Oblomov's only school has been the nursery of self-indulgence, and he cannot bring himself to graduate. He decides, elegantly, that he should have stood in bed. The responsibilities of marriage petrify him. He pleads lack of funds and postpones the date. He develops Victorian scruples about being seen unchaperoned with Olga...