Word: reformist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brooded over the rise of the so-called "robber barons." The anti-intellectualism of that day was the cold contempt of unlettered men (whose scions later gave millions to universities). The result-since the U.S. lacked a conservative tradition -was to fill intellectuals, from Wilson through Roosevelt, with liberal reformist zeal. But the anti-intellectualism of today is no longer contempt for a low-status group. It is more likely fear of a high-status group-"a kind of populist antagonism to any elite." To the now defunct Facts Forum, a Texas mouthpiece for the late Joe McCarthy, the enemy...
...acknowledge Calvin as their spiritual father. Dutch Reformed mingled with Hungarian Calvinist; delegates from churches in Poland, Rumania, Australia and Madagascar exchanged greetings with delegates from the U.S. and from the Church of Scotland. Said Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson, pastor of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church: "The Reformist and Presbyterian churches are still the most international of the Protestant groups...
...answered that Cuba will attract U.S. visitors "by more decent means-sports, for instance." Castro said that the gambling casinos would be reopened, for tourists only, and "the profits will go to the people." The ban on liquor sales stayed in effect until week's end, but reformist zeal could not entirely suppress the Cuban love of life. As tension gradually eased, the shaggy warriors from the hills began leading awed Havana girls to inspect their free (normally $30-a-day) rooms in the Hilton and Nacional Hotels...
...editor a party hack who had run the newspaper during the years Gomulka was in jail. A magazine was confiscated, and its editor fired, when it reprinted an angry article on Stalinism by French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre. An iron censorship was imposed on the bright reformist weeklies. Said one ex-editor: "I cannot follow Gomulka on this. But I cannot fight him, either...
...Agreed, in an attempt to end their "isolation," to try to build a "labor-peoples' antimonopoly" front with the help of the "reformist" groups which they had for many years fought, i.e., liberal labor leaders, independent Negro associations. Moreover, to get the new program under way, they decided to return party headquarters from effete Manhattan to Chicago, whence it had migrated in 1926. Reason: Chicago is near the heart of the farm belt and has a large concentration of Negro workers " in key unions...