Word: reactional
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...Palestinians voted for Hamas, Washington rushed to the old methods of shoring up the power of the leaders preferred by America. But anyone familiar with what Israel, with U.S. backing, is doing in the West Bank and Gaza will see Palestinian support for Hamas as a natural reaction. The belief that Palestinian minds will be changed by increasing their suffering through a financial blockade is a pipe dream. Yet that appears to be the focus of U.S. policy towards the Palestinians...
...reaction against these campaigns, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 2003 changed its "guidelines" to "regulations" on what is allowed. Among the rules: "Receptions, lunches, dinners or other events to which Academy members are invited that are specifically designed to promote a film or achievement for Academy Awards consideration are expressly forbidden." To get around that rule, studios sponsor parties disguised as events; academic-like "symposiums" with the cast and crew and "lectures" from stars and directors. Thus, Tuesday night's event was intended to honor Stone for the Hollywood Film Festival. Wink, wink...
...social movements seem to endure that kind of lurching debate over ideological purity. Selma in 1965 gave way to armed Black Panthers marching on the California capitol two years later. The Stonewall riots of 1969--a reaction against years of police brutality--seem quaintly simple compared with the 1989 storming of St. Patrick's Cathedral by AIDS activists. Gallaudet's current protests, which began months ago and have involved blockades and arrests and charges of violence on both sides, aren't Selma; they're Chicago in 1969, the deaf community's Days of Rage...
Young said that while the crowd’s reaction to his racier material was “a little more conservative” than he expected, he had seen worse...
...would hope that a student body as highly-touted, and intellectually talented, as Harvard’s would have a bit more of a reaction to this than “Man, that sucks...