Word: reformist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Kennedy was really a good deal more than a healthy spectator sport, more than a major reformist influence in American society, more than a sympathetic, concerned friend, even more than what Jack Paar called "the most beautiful man I ever knew." In a tragic historical sense, Robert Kennedy was one of the few, and surely the most effective of America's political leaders who liberated themselves from the strangling moralisms of the 1950s. Bob Kennedy got over Communist watching, shucked the blinders of Cold War interventionism, and found ghetto residents more enlightening Congressional witnesses than labor racketeers. Sometime...
...present, Premier Aldo Moro's Center-Left coalition remains the only viable form of government in Italy, and Nenni's Socialists have gone too far in their partnership with Moro to reverse direction now. But the coalition's survival depends largely on a program reformist enough to restore confidence in the Socialists without undermining the Christian Democrats' and Republicans' new-found support from the right. A neat trick, if it can be done...
...hippies thrust bunches of carnations and tulips into Party Boss Alexander Dubček's hands during a May Day parade singularly devoid of the polemics heard elsewhere in the Communist world. Dubček smiled with pleasure at the unusual sign of support for his reformist regime, signed autographs and accepted sandwiches and cake offered him from the crowd. But not all was flowers and cake for Dubček last week, and hippies were not the only ones besieging...
...Rabbits Long Enough." In Prague's Old Town Square, students organized the most anti-Communist rally yet of the four-month-old "socialist renaissance." Assembling at the statue of the 15th century reformist theologian Jan Hus, thousands of people heard speakers call upon Dubček to permit opposition political parties and to rid the government of old-line party men who still hold office. "We have been rabbits long enough!" shouted Engineering Student Josef Vavelda. "We hear we should be grateful to the Communist Party," said another speaker. "Yes, we are very grateful for inadequate housing, grateful...
Editorial style now is terse and unpretentious. More to the point, charming irrelevance has given way to sober reformist mood...