Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...letter to The Crimson (April 9, 1980), Nathan Berkovitz levels the all-too-familiar criticism that Blacks are "over-reaction," implicitly, wildly and irrationally, to conditions on this campus and in the community at large. Berkovitz cites four instances in an attempt to back up his claims; each one reveals, however, not Black overreaction, but Berkovitz's insensitivity to racial injustice...
...amazement, the Iranians insisted that one of the messages had been addressed to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeiniand had been remarkably conciliatory. According to Pars, the official Iranian news agency, Carter admitted past "mistakes" in U.S. policy, described the militants' seizure of the hostages as the "reasonable reaction of the youth of Iran" and proposed a joint American-Iranian commission to review "the problems of the two countries...
...given the professor a warm reception; colleagues, too, have been complimentary, much to his surprise. "I had feared I would be drummed out of the corps," says Miller, who refused to tell associates of the impending series last year. "I was deathly afraid of the legal community's reaction." Instead, he finds colleagues more than eager to serve as his experts. For Miller, it has been the culmination of what he once described as his "Walter Mitty dream to be the Dr. Joyce Brothers...
...adolescent and surely a small child can hardly produce anything like informed consent to an adult it depends on for life and guidance; or that the lifting of the incest barrier would invite the routine exploitation of children by disturbed parents. The sex researchers may get the shocked public reaction they expect, but their arguments are truly too simple-minded to earn it. Critic Benjamin DeMott, professor of English at Amherst, feels that outrage is not the proper response to what might be called the pro-incest lobby. Says he: "These voices cry out loudest for pity...
Chassin supported Bok, saying that "although demonstrations are effective for a reaction to a specific policy, if students ever want to influence university policy decisions, they will have to be active and not reactive...