Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), meeting in Estes Park, Coio.. heard its president rebuke "legislators who would seal the lips of prophetic clergymen." Said Rabbi Joseph L. Fink of Buffalo, in a reference to congressional criticism of Methodist Bishop G. Bromiey Oxnam (TIME, March 30): "For any Congressman, in furious self-rectitude, to intimidate clergymen with the threat of besmirching public investigation ... is an unprecedented violation of a Congressman's trust...
...months after taking over as president of Princeton University, Political Scientist Harold W. Dodds issued a typically Doddsian communique. "I hope the alumni will pardon me," he wrote, "if at this time I propose no stirring platform ... or radical reform." As things turned out, President Dodds has never made any such proposals, and his alumni have gone right on pardoning him. It made no difference that Robert Hutchins was once supposed to have cracked: "What's wrong with you down there at Princeton? You're never stirring things up." Last week, as he passed his 20th anniversary...
...usual "well-informed sources" but from the Reds' own Pravda of Pilsen, center of the giant Lenin (formerly Skoda) Works. It was written in Communist doubletalk, but remarkably candid for all that: "On June 1, some politically unaware workers let themselves be persuaded into believing that the currency reform was aimed at them, and that they would not be able to live on their new wages and would go hungry. They staged antistate demonstrations ... In the town hall rioters tore down pictures of Czech state leaders and hung up pictures of the imperialist agent Benes [the last non-Communist...
...Chamber of Deputies. This time they won a narrow edge in the Senate, but, though the leading party, failed by 57,000 votes to get a clear popular majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Had those comparatively few votes swung his way, De Gasperi's hard-fought electoral-reform law would have given him a bonus of about 80 seats. As it was proportional representation gave him a 16-seat Chamber majority-enough to govern warily but not boldly...
Then the Communists shifted their attack to the government's agrarian reform program. Three months ago the government police tangled with Chinese peasant immigrants illegally squatting in North Sumatra. Six Chinese were killed. Red China's consul was on the spot within the hour. His protest led to a National Front vote of condemnation in the Indonesian Parliament last week. With half his party openly against him, Wilopo quit. Probable next step: a government which will include Communists...