So here's looking forward to the new life, reform or no reform, as long as it's new.
The Real Life Reform project examines in detail the finances, views and behaviours of a group of up to 100 households.
As previous Real Life reform installments have shown, this meagre consumerism is subsidised by debt: people buy food on credit cards, "borrowing to cope".
Kauffman details the influence of the German lebensreform (life reform) movement, "which embraced nudism, vegetarian diets, and drugless medicine," on broader dietary preferences.
Himself an alumnus of Dartmouth fraternity Alpha Delta -- the inspiration for National Lampoon's Animal House -- Hanlon surely remembers that the last president to hint at Greek life reform faced both hundreds of student protesters and a lawsuit from disgruntled alumni.
In some cases, Mr. Bloomberg is simply extending Mayor Giuliani's policy initiatives, with a twist, as in adding homeless shelter safety to his list of quality-of-life reforms.
While the film adheres closely to the historical record, it ends before we see that in real life these reforms were tested and fought over for generations.
It may even be incorporated into political life through reform.
Recently, Boo and her editor, Jeffrey Frank, discussed urban life, welfare reform, and whether families like Elizabeth Jones's can hope for a better future.
He listed the he Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act and Racial Discrimination Act as among Whitlam's most life-changing reforms for the Indigenous population.
French pilgrims trod the newly developing route to Compostela; monastic life was reformed according to the Cluniac observance; and various northern social ideas and customs altered the life of the nobility.
