Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gongora was a Seventeenth Century mystic, "impassioned by the beauty of the world," who tried to generally reform the Church intellectuals of his time...
Nationalization's Price. Bolivia's far-reaching revolution of 1952 gave land to virtually enslaved Indians and nationalized the mines of the rich tin barons who dominated the country. But land reform drastically cut farm output, and nationalization of the tin companies boomeranged as production slipped from 33,664 tons in 1951 to 27,435 in 1956. With fewer goods than before to pay for these social advances, Bolivia in a single year more than tripled the amount of paper money in circulation...
Walter Rauschenbusch labored from 1886 to 1897 among the poor of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen-reading Tolstoy, Mazzini, Marx, and supporting the reform movement of Single-Taxer Henry George...
Abolition of non-Honors junior tutorial is being considered among faculty members as part of an overall discussion of upperclass curriculum reform...
...French public's reaction to political crisis is almost as stylized as the crises themselves. The first stage is cynicism, the next amusement, followed by bored indifference. Presumably, if a crisis ever lasted long enough, the French people would become exasperated enough to demand reform, but since the war that stage has never come. Last week the public was plainly in the third stage of bored indifference...