Word: reforms
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Board of Rabbis, representing 700 Orthodox, Conservative and Reform rabbis...
...bureaucracy, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi had wanted a free, two-party vote. With the Shah's encouragement, his close boyhood friend, Asa-dollah Alam, had taken to the stump at the head of a loyal opposition called the People's Party, which denounced corruption and urged land reform. At this point, the Shah retired to his six palaces and his pregnant third wife, Farah Diba, whom he counts on to produce a male heir in late October. But while the Shah relaxed, pro-Nationalist landowners herded their villagers to the polls. One independent candidate produced photographs showing that...
...returns and called a press conference. "I am not satisfied with these elections," he said bluntly. "If the nation wants me to cancel them, despite the law and the limits of my constitutional power, I will do so." But he held out the hope that the Majlis would reform itself by "changing the electoral law to match conditions in democratic countries." A day later, Premier Eghbal motored to Saadabad Palace and turned in his resignation. At week's end it still lay on the desk of the Shah, who pondered how to soothe a popular unrest not seen...
...just old enough to appreciate the fact that he is just small enough to be hip-high to a pair of toreador pants. Sophia plays the sort of doll who scratches where she itches, and sees nothing wrong with the lad's education. Gable, of course, tries to reform Marietto. "After all," he reasons, "you're part American." Says the live-end kid: "You no tell anyone, I no tell anyone." When Gable sees the boy touting for Sophia's gin mill late one night, he tells him sternly, "Go home and dream about Indians - men Indians...
Young Israel Synagogue in Cleveland, is that it threatens the philosophical underpinnings of liberal Judaism, which was founded largely on the ethical rationalism of 19th century German thought. Liberal Jews set small store by the Law; some Reform congregations have little to distinguish them from Unitarians. Existentialism, with its distrust of reason and its emphasis on the irrational and emotional nature of man's fear-filled, striving experience of life, points Jews as well as Christians back to the intangibles of the Old Testament, where religion has little to do with peace of mind or making the world...