Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, a critical factor in the contest is a group of four councilmen backed by the Cambridge Civic Association, popularly known as the CCA. This "good-government" reform group has controlled the City Council for the past four years, and has, in past elections, opposed most of the other present Councilmen...
Historian Andre Maurois: "Three things must be done: reform of the constitution, reform of parliamentary procedure, and reform of the electoral system. A really determined political leader could, I believe, do it. France will always be a difficult country to govern, but she has survived worse crises than the present one and always astonished the world with her powers of recuperation. I would be willing to bet that in a hundred years' time-in 2053-France will be going along about the same as she is now-not perhaps much better, but no worse. Unless in 2053 there...
...followers; too many preachers and too few sinners-self-conscious sinners, that is ... Especially in a democracy, where everyone is more or less free to advocate schemes for the improvement of society, lively and self-confident minds are inclined to expend their intellectual and emotional potential on reform movements. The attention of the reformer is consequently drawn away from contemplation of the state of his own soul . . . How then can he be sure that he is the right person to prescribe for his neighbors...
Fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties . . . always remain devoted to the public welfare . . . never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty...
...China needs reform," Tingfu concluded. "The problem lies in finding out those ways of reform which can be based on the best of China's own traditions and culture...