Word: reformist
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...their representatives. A whopping 82 per cent of the House backed him up. Although the action was in many ways regrettable and ill-advised, it had the desired effect. The Council had to begin an agonizing reappraisal of itself. Almost overnight Bill Bailey had become a rallying point for reformist sentiment, and his proposal for a smaller, limited inter-House Council began to pick up support...
...chances of an economic upheaval, with expropriations and nationalization, seem equally slim. The N.P.C. [National People's Congress] is a bourgeois reformist party, and while the ideologies of the N.C.N.C. [National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons] and the Action Group are less clear, their leaders realize that, if they drive away foreign capital, "they will be cutting their own throats...
Looking at the current African leaders, Essien-Udom contrasts Toure, whom he calls a revolutionist, wanting to change the whole of society, with Nkrumah, a reformist who only wants to patch things up, here and there. As to which of these kinds of change he thinks Nigeria needs most, Essien-Udom merely answers: "I am not a politician...
...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...