Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Perhaps the most severe reservation held by Harvard is the possibility of a chain reaction. If District 65 is victorious, its success may trigger other Harvard clerical and technical employees to start a unionizing drive of their own. Such a campaign could result in a bargaining unit seven to eight times larger than the University's biggest union--the Harvard University Employees Representatives Association, which has only 550 members...
...reaction to a simple football match seems exaggerated or inappropriate, consider Pittsburgh for a moment. Primarily a blue-collar worker's town, most of the people who live here, from lawyers to contractors to mill workers to coal miners, are in some way involved in the steel industry. Consider also, that the recent slump in the steel market, aggravated in part by the recession and by competitive foreign steel markets such as Japan's and West Germany's, has forced many plants to close down, leaving many thousands of steel workers unemployed. The layoff of the steelworkers has serious repercussions...
...true that the Agrarian dictum "reaction is the most radical of programs" dates badly on the subject of race. Most of the Vanderbilt prophets leave themselves open to the criticism that when they did not behave as if slavery had never existed, they acted as if the slaves had loved it. But in the end, the Agrarians were not political economists; they were poets searching for a metaphor. When they called for a "world made safe for the farmers," surely it was because they believed that such a world would also be safe for poets...
International reaction to the tragedy was swift. The U.S. provided six military helicopters and 2,000 tents and pledged an initial $1.5 million to a relief fund, while a welter of private charities set up funds of their own in American cities with large Italian immigrant populations. The European Community appropriated $2 million for disaster relief. Red Cross societies in at least nine countries, including Japan and South Korea, provided funds...
...when some Asian American students see protrayals of Asian women as whores and of Asian men as slimy undesirables in Harvard theatrical productions our reaction is more than a nervous giggle. We are reminded of our grandmothers, who were prohibited from emigrating to this country and then kidnapped for slave prostitution houses in San Francisco. We are reminded of our grandfathers who were recruited into the brutal jobs of agriculture, mining, and railroad construction--only to suffer lynchings, mob attacks, and discriminatory legislation. We are reminded of the price that our parents and grandparents had to pay in order...