Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least a pagan vision-a contradiction of the materialistic view: it is the insight into a harmony with nature which must be re-established if the truly Christian imagination is to be recovered by Christians. What he is trying to convey is ... not a program of agrarian reform, but a point of view unintelligible to the industrialized mind." And profoundly vitalizing that point of view are Kipling's strange nerves of prophecy and mysticism...
...soon as the task of liberation permits, there must be free elections. I do not doubt that Italians will vote for a progressive republic." Carlo Sforza had an old man's vision: "When the time comes, there must first be agrarian reform, an end of landless peasants and great estates. The economy of Italy might well be patterned after that of prewar Czecho-Slovakia. A thriving Catholic nation of small landowners and busy workers is the best bulwark against communism...
...doesn't take any startling deduction to predict the whole plot of this movie 15 minutes after it has begun. It's the same old flimsy cliche having for its well-worn theme the reform of a draft-dodging gambler by a pretty little Max Factor creation. Of course, all the bad men, recalcitrant grandfathers who get indignant about the family honor, and bungling detectives are part of the trappings...
...President Roosevelt . . . will long be celebrated as the leader under whom the period of reform known as the New Deal was carried through, and who saw, many months before the people as a whole, the necessity of defeating the Axis...
British answer: Reform, 57%; No reform. 34%; Undecided...