Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Pleased though the Harvard fans were, their reaction to the touchdowns couldn't compare with their enthusiasm for public address announcer Charlie Dale's (age 70) updates of the Yale score...
...Press Secretary Jody Powell, his face pale and lined with tension, emerged to make a brief, cautious and laconic report to the press. The Administration had yet to receive an official translation of the resolution voted by the Majlis, he explained. Therefore the U.S. Government would have no official reaction until "additional information becomes available through a variety of sources ... The obvious gravity of the issue requires deliberate and careful concentration by the President...
Young said he is not forming the committee in reaction to any particular event, adding that last year he, Saul Chafin, chief of police, and two students met periodically in a similar group. "We're talking to a population that's new in town, and the more aware they are the better," he said...
Gomes said yesterday the council--which asked him to appear--had "guarded and uncommitted" reaction to his outline of the committee's work, adding that he thought Bok would present the committee's final proposal, due January 1, to the Faculty for further study. Bok was unavailable for comment yesterday...
Cobb sees architecture as a moral endeavor. He is frustrated by the flippant attitude inherent in much post-modern architecture. In reaction to the strict terms of the modern style, many architects now indulge in haphazard eclectisism. He welcomes the return of the figurative in architecture, the use of forms inbued with cultural meaning and associations. He approves, to a certain degree, of the wit and irony of post-modern designs. He worries, however, that an excess of such levity will weaken the impact of the figurative, resulting in "an unconscious trivialization of meaning." He senses a dangerous carelessness...