Word: reformation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow flat, is finally destroyed by it. In the process of that destruction, Pasternak tells the story of Russia in the 20th century--of the parasites who feed on emergent ideologies, of men serving and struggling against systems and faiths they cannot grasp, of the miasma of bureaucracy, land reform, nobility, and military that was Russia after October...
...accident that all this coincided with fairly strong criticism of Khrushchev's educational reform plan by Nesmeyanov and other academicians, who do not like its provision for putting all students to work. At a recent Moscow meeting, Nesmeyanov reportedly toed the line: the time has come to glorify Soviet scientific achievements as the unique outgrowth of Marxist philosophy. Lysenko is not the type to accept political without professional vindication. In the field of Soviet genetics. Khrushchev's announcement that academic and research projects will henceforth get funds in proportion to their showing in the cowshed rather than...
...National Assembly, hoping to capitalize on the growing chaos. But Premier Phoui (pronounced Pwee) Sananikone, 55 (TIME, Sept. 1), a muscular and quick-witted six-footer, was ready for them. Last August he had formed a government shorn of the two Communist ministers. He instituted a currency reform that allowed the Laotian kip to find its normal level of 80 to the dollar, and he brought a halt to the scandalous abuse...
...himself. A professor was denounced, went mad, and ended up "living in a pig sty." Lo himself was subjected to weeks of public criticism for reading pre-Communist novels rather than progressive ones. Then came the directive ordering all politically suspect students and intellectuals sent to the country to reform through manual labor...
...these men have their way, they will not cripple Cuba's sugar-based economy by drastic agrarian reform. They will keep the climate warm for U.S. investors, whose $800 million stake in Cuba includes huge plantations producing 40% of the sugar. In turn. Cuba will keep its big, guaranteed share of the U.S. sugar market. A dozen U.S. industries in Cuba, including Firestone, Du Pont, Reynolds, Phelps Dodge and Remington Rand, finished plants last year, and other big firms are going ahead with building plans...