Word: reformist
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...show biz, anyway-are widely believed to make up with their innocent high spirits what they lack in common sense and stability. In this case, the gamine is played by the ubiquitous Goldie Hawn. The author, whom convention dictates must reluctantly fall for her despite bouts of reformist palaver and exasperation, is played by Hal Holbrook...
...Some people say these are reformist programs," Seale said. "They're not reformist programs--they're means by which we organize people for their future liberation. I'm married, I got children, I like to cook, I'm a human being like anyone else--it's not so much me that's radical and militant, it's the masses of the people. The senior citizen being mugged wants a radical change--where they're not being mugged any more...
...with the four men riding in their car, it closes, when they leave, not on them but on the caretaker whose job and security their irresponsible behavior has left in jeopardy. Ray made his film about the middle class because he believes they have the freest hand. In his reformist view, they--and not the masses--are the hope for change in India...
...King's support could enable the emerging reformist regime to weather expected turbulence on several fronts. Consumers are angered by inflation; since last January, prices have risen more than 17% and rice prices alone have soared 50%. The students remain restless because they feel that the reforms have not yet gone far enough to end the corruption and injustice in the kingdom. The Thai labor movement, which has just won a boost in the minimum wage from 600 a day to 800, has flexed its new muscle by calling 142 strikes, most of which were settled quickly...
...participants in last week's riots all know how the story will end. They are tragic victims because they cannot possibly alter the inevitable course of events. For one reason or another, they are all stuck at Madison. No reformist program--the human relations office that will soon be set up in the cafeteria, the assembly programs on Martin Luther King that will be performed in the auditorium, and the parent-teacher meetings that will be conducted--can stop the emerging sequence of events. There is nothing mystifying about why this certain pattern must set in. It is a result...