Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...corporations on April 17, "Big Business Day." The place: demonstrations at 150 cities around the country. The charges: from the predictable (pollution, consumer gouging, union busting, governmental corruption) to the obscure (opposing the Equal Rights Amendment, causing high taxes and spoiling New York City's subway system). The reaction: a fairly large yawn...
...reaction was predictable--the sculpture consists simply of flat, irregularly shaped pieces of stone arranged in a circle on the floor. Long and others who create so-called environmental art have met misunderstanding and hostility from the press and the public since the movement got underway in the 1960s. The category of environmental art includes such diverse and controversial projects as Christo's "Running Fence," which stretched along miles of the California coastline, and Robert Smithson's full-sized "Spiral Jetty" in the Great Salt Lake in Utah...
...reaction of the City Council to the news was relatively unconstructive. Bound by laws prohibiting it from interfering with Harvard expansion, the council voted only to drape City Hall in purple bunting, a symbol of mourning over the "slow death" of the city before Harvard's expansion...
...University's reaction to the list was far more important--and depressing. Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, called it a "fake" and a "cheap shot," arguing that Harvard bought one of the properties on the list at the urging of the city, that others were in areas no one else wanted, and that the University was trying to sell some parcels. Schmidt cannot deny, however, that the list pins down a phenomenon no one can ignore--Harvard's institutional expansion into surrounding parts of Cambridge...
...rebel against that kind of expectation is to fail at school or work. A more common reaction is to overachieve, with little sense of accomplishment or pleasure. The attitude, says Davis, is "Whatever I do it's never enough to make up for your loss." Either way, the survivor child is likely to feel isolated. Says Miriam Schiller, whose mother survived the Warsaw ghetto and Auschwitz: "When I was very little, all my parents' friends were survivors. Even among American Jews, I was an isolationist. I always felt separate from the people around...