Word: reformists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrote Richard Brautigan in his poem "Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain." In this spirit, growing disenchantment with U.S. public schools has produced a new alternative in virtually every state: small, mostly private "free" schools. Influenced by reformist manifestos like John Holt's How Children Fail, more than 800 of them are now run by diverse idealists -suburban mothers, ghetto blacks, former campus radicals. Their mood is typified by exotic school names: The Mind Restaurant (Phoenix), The Elizabeth Cleaners (Manhattan). Stone Soup (Longwood, Fla.), All Together Now (Venice, Calif.). Their future...
...Chile's Salvador Allende Gossens, who recently completed his first 100 days as the only Marxist chief of state ever elected by free vote. So far, he has realized neither the businessman's worst fears nor the handyman's impossible dream. He has been more reformist than revolutionary, more populist than Marxist. "He is a better President," concedes an opposition politician, "than he was a candidate." Still, Allende has moved more quickly and forcefully than expected by U.S. officials to direct Chile toward full socialization, and his Communist allies have begun to speak of "making the revolution...
...years before the U.S. entered World War II were enough to exhaust any Westerner's patience. The Nationalist Chinese victory of 1928 over the provincial warlords was never total. Its reformist possibilities were gradually destroyed by corruption and ineptitude and by the bitter power struggle with the emerging Communist Party, which challenged the existence of Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Many in Chiang's Kuomintang Party were attempting to push China toward modernization and industrialization, the path taken by Japan the century before. Many others seemed content to take what they could from a peasantry long accustomed...
...world's view of Ibsen has too often been filtered through the bristling eyebrows of Bernard Shaw, who foisted upon Ibsen all of his own social-reformist instincts and his penchant for exposing economically motivated hypocrisy in all of man's social institutions. But Ibsen was not like that. He was Lucifer's child, a moral rebel with a lone eagle complex who believed that the master spirit soars above the common herd of slaves, who mill about in their social bondage of marriages, families, businesses, religions, political parties and national allegiances. A friend who heard Ibsen...
...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...