Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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After symposia on racial issues were held, general reaction among the students and faculty of the college indicated that the discussions had been constructive and had raised the consciousness of everyone involved...
Even politically neutral observers felt the President had been badly hurt. Georgia Pollster Claibourne Darden predicted that, coming on top of the President's other problems, the Billy factor would be especially harmful. Explained Darden: "If everything was going fine otherwise, the reaction would just be 'It's his stupid brother,' but now Billy's image transfers to Jimmy." California Pollster Mervin Field felt that the Billy affair provides "a disturbing reminder" of the President's previous embarrassing friendship for wheeler-dealer Banker and White House Insider Bert Lance. "The Billy thing puts President...
...pervasive sense that the Americans are not here to compete. Every tourist at a Moscow Olympic event finds himself brought up short when he looks out and fails to see the deep-blue warm-up suits with the red-and-white USA on the back of the jerseys. The reaction has had its odd consequences. One tourist group in Leningrad last week began singing God Bless America in the hotel bar - "It made us feel good," one of them told me - and last night about 20 of them had planned to meet and sing the same song in Red Square...
Consciously or not, Capote eventually responded to this challenge with Answered Prayers, that bedeviled, and still unfinished, gossip novel concocted from letters, journals, conversations and the confidences spilled during hundreds of lunch dates. Four chapters of the book were published by Esquire in 1975-76. The reaction was predictable. Capote was denounced as a malicious liar and betrayer of his jet-set friends...
...Richard Francis Burton, searcher for the source of the Nile, translator of The Arabian Nights, soldier, swordsman and linguist, dies in Trieste in 1890 (as did the historical Burton). Moments later-or is it millenniums?-he awakens, naked and bewildered, on the bank of the river. Burton's reaction is entirely in character. While other resurrectees stagger about in shock, the world's most intrepid traveler sets off to find the source of the river and to learn who is responsible for his situation...