Word: kneejerk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business community. "I'm a Republican. The Democratic Administration has two years to go. There's no basis in my mind, either personally or as the corporation, to fight the President, "he says." We want to help him. We want him to succeed." Sneath disapproves of the "strictly political kneejerk reaction (which) is to take potshots at whoever is in office if he's with the opposition...
...beyond the obvious, the defensive kneejerk refusal to listen to Solzhenisyn, there is another reason why a Western audience--whether in Cambridge or Ohio--had such trouble hearing. Solzhenitsyn, after all, is profoundly a man of Eastern culture, and his ideas simply do not mesh with the mental and philosophical constructs of the West...
...achievement and femininity, finding that someone else sees in that split the absurdity which you sensed long ago is as exhiliarating as it is reassuring. One may then read on to an article that says. "I have never met a woman who did not feel guilty," and instead of kneejerk denial (which is how I first reacted), one reflects on the many small ways in which that sentence is true. How many women are there who do not feel a bit guilty if a man does all the cooking or all the dishes, or if their husbands and children leave...