Word: counteractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much support we are all going to need, was evidenced in the article in the magazine on mothers and their sons. It quoted a dozen women, all feminists, agonizing over the question of how to raise their sons. The women despaired of being able to counteract the influence of a sexist society, and were afraid that raising their sons to be gentle and sensitive would expose them to the ridicule of their more macho playmates...
Since the Nazi Holocaust, which wiped out one-third of the world's Jews, "Jewish survival" has been a slogan that encompasses a number of issues. Besides support for Israel and Soviet Jewry, the concept includes attempts to counteract losses through secularization and intermarriage of Jews with Gentiles. Another, and some say the greatest threat to Jewish survival is being increasingly talked about: the trend among modern Jews to have small families. In the U.S., for example, enrollment in synagogue classes and day schools has declined by roughly one-fourth since 1965, owing largely to the falling Jewish birth...
Naturally, the AHA is always trying to find ways to involve more alumni, particularly now that economic problems have made the private gift more important. A drive is underway to attract younger alumni to counteract the long-standing tendency of alumni to "disappear until their tenth reunion," as Shultz puts it. Maurice Lazarus '37, former AHA president, already sees a "growing interest on the part of more recent alumni," and the AHA is considering forming a New Class Officers' Organization that would bring together young alumni between reunion years. Shultz imagines this group will offer six week seminars...
Jews withhold financial support from politicians who speak their minds if what they say is not favorable to Israel. Arabs try to counteract. They withhold business from Jews. But that is a blacklist. Wake up, America: double standards will not get you anywhere...
Heurtebise's presence is often quite a relief in this production, as it manages to counteract the strained sense of tragedy Steven Crist insists on projecting through Orpheus. Regardless of the situation. Crist speaks in the same strident, anguished voice, which, predictably, soon grows monotonous. The play needs some contrast to the gentility of Heurtebise and the coy good nature of Eurydice, but Orpheus fails to provide that balance--harshly disrupting the triangle of their relationship, instead...