Word: reformist
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...desk full of middle-class repair bills. She has taken up the signal causes of her generation-sleeping-in with the Indians at Alcatraz, demonstrating against the ABM. But just as she has nagging doubts about her acting, she is not sure she is going about her reformist duties in quite the right way. During the shooting of Soldier Blue she organized a Moratorium Day demonstration in Mexico. She recalls comically: "We met in a drugstore, hatching plans over sundaes. Oh, we were heavy radicals all right...
...leftist feeling against the U.S. seems strange indeed. Chile, after all, is more prosperous and more egalitarian than most of its neighbors. It is also the staunchest democracy in South America, undisturbed by coups d'état since 1932 and led for the past six years by the strenuously reformist government of President Eduardo Frei. Few countries in Latin America have appeared to be so devoted to the democratic process as this nation of 9,000,000. Even its geography helped by isolating it from its neighbors. Stretching more than 2,600 miles down the west coast of South America...
Sometimes it takes a shock. Howard Samuels, who made his millions in the plastics business, is full of reformist ideas partly gained from family policy meetings with his eight kids, aged eleven to 27. Last winter, while campaigning...
Falsely, perhaps, Soviet authorities had felt they could depend on the Kronstadt sailors to uphold the gains of the Bolshevik victory. Inveterate enemies of Tsarist autocracy, the sailors had risen decisively against both Nicholas and the mildly reformist Provisional Government. They had propelled the Communists to victory at the Winter Palace, and the valiant support which they rendered the fledgling regime during the stormy days after the October insurrection had prompted Minister of War Leon Trotsky to hail them as "the pride and glory of the revolution...
...know it; the sailors called for the realization of the "toilers republic," while the Whites stood for a bourgeois or even a Tsarist restoration, and all the dreaded forms of exploitation which that involved. The threat of the sailors was serious enough, but for the most part it was reformist in nature; the reactionaries would settle on nothing less than the final overthrow of Bolshevik rule...