Word: reformists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although those Harvard administrators and alumni who led the Revolution of '38 may not admit it today, their reformist undertakings, left over from one of William Jennings Bryan's platforms, lay down a fertile field for disguised power plays and seemingly innocent maneuvering. For rather than fostering antiseptic government, the University-Brattle Street coalition spawned an amorphous council, a vacuum just waiting for a few bosses to step...
...into the crannies of American misery and hope-ghetto Jews and child pieceworkers in the verminous cellars of New York, riggers on the high steel, the corridors of Ellis Island and the mine tunnels of Pennsylvania-Lewis Hine, once a schoolteacher but also one of America's great reformist photographers, gave his modest definition of "concerned" photography. All arts, in theory, have some social resonance. But documentary photography is uniquely a social act, for its sole purpose is to make people concrete to each other...
...unorthodox campaign tactics. He made little effort to court the bloc votes of teachers, ranchers and labor that are traditionally a determining factor in Oklahoma elections, and spurned all contributions from groups and organizations. Said he: "I just want to be indebted to the individual voters." Boren's reformist rhetoric clearly appealed to Oklahoma voters, weary of scandal not only in Washington but also in Oklahoma City, where incumbent Governor David Hall (who was eliminated in the primary) faces probable indictment by a federal grand jury investigating kickbacks in the awarding of state contracts...
...earth. He appointed governments, made laws, and held life-and-death power over his 26 million subjects. Since February, the once unchallengeable powers of the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings, Elect of God, Emperor of Ethiopia have gradually been taken away by the reformist young military officers who now dominate his country. Last week even the titles were gone; Haile Selassie, 82, was deposed from the imperial throne he had occupied for almost a half-century...
...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...