Word: reformist
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...Down. The months in between have produced only minor shifts. And yet this time they could prove decisive. Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 68, founding father of the revolutionary-turned-reformist APRA party, still retains much of his old magic for Peru's peasants and workers. But he disillusioned many supporters in 1962 by trying to make a quick postelection deal to share power with an old enemy, ex-Dictator Manuel Odría. Important unions that once turned out a solid APRA vote have been taken over by far-leftists, who have no liking...
...visiting poetry professor at Oxford and (for 40 years) a tireless reformist inspector of the British school system. Critic Arnold had many a platform from which to praise past excellence and take potshots at John Bullish complacency. He had a gift for making a phrase stick. After Arnold so summed him up, Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley has indelibly remained "an ineffectual angel." His fellow Britons Arnold divided into three groups: "the Barbarians [aristocracy], the Populace and the Philistines," an epithet which for Arnold summed up all the sins of the muscular, muddleheaded, self-satisfied British middle class. He takes...
...sessions, his serious preoccupation with his own region of North Africa, his judicious comment that Morocco would join an Arab union headed by Egypt's Nasser only after careful study had shown such union to be "in the common good." The Washington consensus: King Hassan is a "modern reformist" in the tradition of the Shah of Iran...
Even in Philadelphia, Scranton ran only 20,000 behind Dilworth. And under the challenge of the reformist Republican alliance, the old G.O.P. had bestirred itself as it had not in years. If its energy can continue through November, Scranton, who is already being mentioned as a dark horse for the Republican presidential nomination...
...should his government be brought down, it would be replaced by a military dictatorship headed by tough General Teymour Bakhtiar and supported by landlords and mullahs (Moslem religious leaders). General Bakhtiar makes no secret of his willingness, should the Shah call on him, to replace Amini's reformist program with simple repression. Last week the general was Jeeping through the mountainous interior of Iran, renewing old friendships with his clansmen in the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe, who can supply him with clouds of hard-fighting horsemen, if needed...