Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raised $93,000 for Hungarian refugees. Recently, at the Roman Catholic boys' club in Rotterdam that he helps run, he showed the boys a newspaper clipping. It described how two Negro boys in Monroe, N.C.-David Simpson, 8, and James Thompson, 10-had been sent to reform school for having kissed a white girl (TIME, Jan. 26). Saris' young friends got as indignant...
...such thing as virtue." The Possessed was partly written to illuminate that point. The book swept from Russia's liberals, who reveled in sentimental idealism, straight to the awful result: the young nihilists of the 1870s, who believed that terrorism was justified as a means to political reform. Camus read the book at 20 ("A soul-shaking experience"). Like Dostoevsky, Camus broods about the ailment of freedom without God, about political mass murder in the name of life and the future. Although he has been unable to accept Dostoevsky's remedy (return to God and the soil...
...book is much more than an indictment of the Communist system. It is, just as much, an indictment of world-savers and social engineers, the true believer and the legislator of morality; an indictment as much of any political system which seeks to reform the world from the top or bottom, and ignores the basic ingredient and the basic problem...
John F. Kennedy came to Cambridge to ask the Economics Department how to write a Labor Reform Bill, and promised local citizens that his Senatorial campaign would be marked by "fewer tea parties" and a more down-to-earth approach. When the Senator cancelled his world-wide speaking tour, people took this to mean that he would campaign inside the State this time...
...arrived at the magic figure of $100,000, it was rumored that he had divided the annual Gross National Product by the number of Harvard students, and subtracted an odd number of Yalies. At any rate, he refused to tell John Kennedy how to write a Labor Reform Bill, and continued to work on his new book, an expose of the Affluent Society...