Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Mellow remarks somewhat apologetically that few family anecdotes survive from the author's childhood. In the next few sentences, Mellow goes on to relate five such anecdotes, not one of which provides any useful information about Hawthorne's disposition or character. One of Mellow's vignettes concerns Hawthorne's reaction to a bothersome neighboring woman: "Take her away!" the young Nathaniel apparently cried, "She is ugly and fat, and has a loud voice...
This statement is revealing not only as a testament to Epps' continuous reaction to the situation as dean of students, but also to his basic lack of knowledge about HDNS's affairs during Olive's tenure as manager. Epps says he decided to use College money in mid-April because "he hadn't really gotten an accurate notion of what was going on." While it is possible--and even tempting--to explain Epps' actions on the basis of his compassion for Olive or his concern for students in general, his ignorance is inexcusable...
Though Pérez Esquivel is only the second Argentine ever to win the Peace Prize (the first was Foreign Minister Saavedra Lamas in 1936 for having settled the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay), the reaction of the junta was singularly graceless. Claiming that the award had "taken the country by surprise," the military leadership charged that Pérez Esquivel's activities "were effectively used, regardless of his intentions, to make the movement of various terrorist organizations easier...
Mental adultery with one's own wife? The remark caused no visible reaction among his listeners. But the apparently paradoxical idea of married adultery roused the Italian press and public considerably. Soon the "lust" affair all but overshadowed news from the international Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, which, by coincidence, this month was discussing family and marital problems...
...that's your first reaction, that's okay. It was mine too, until I saw the name Mickey Hatcher in the negotiations...