Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international aspect of the Chinese problem unfortunately has become somewhat clouded by demands for internal reform. Desirable as such reform may be, its importance is but secondary to the issue of civil strife now engulfing the land, and the two issues are as impossible of synchronization as it would be to alter the structural design of a house while the same was being consumed by fire...
...along by scribbling down a few notes in class. Now, he takes down everything his lecturers say, spends hours each night going over his notes. Says he: "At my age it is much harder to retain the stuff than it was at 19." A member of Cincinnati's reform Charter Party, he wants to teach college courses in government...
...upshot: a resolution in which the painters accused themselves of possessing a "spirit of decadence and bourgeois estheticism." All promised to reform...
...things, achieved a singularly easy conscience and an almost hermetically smug optimism. The idea that man is sinful and needs redemption was subtly changed into the idea that man is by nature good and hence capable of indefinite perfectibility. This perfectibility is being achieved through technology, science, politics, social reform, education. Man is essentially good, says 20th Century liberalism, because he is rational, and his rationality is (if the speaker happens to be a liberal Protestant) divine, or (if he happens to be religiously unattached) at least benign. Thus the reason-defying paradoxes of Christian faith are happily bypassed...
...written an Essay on Despotism; now, living in Amsterdam, he wrote, translated, and, as a member of the Freemasons, planned to make them an instrument of world reform. Arrested again, imprisoned in the gloomy fortress at Vincennes, he was, at 28, ruined, his health destroyed, his mind preserved only by the works he wrote (14 or 15 hours a day) so as to keep from brooding on his plight...