Word: react
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps Kirk did not expect such a gory display, and it is assumed he is not happy about it. But he should have realized that a middle-of-the-night invasion by police who tend to react quickly to student resistance could easily explode. David B. Truman, university vice-president, had conceded that the buildings could not be retaken "without some roughing up." Kirk and Truman's miscalculation has so discredited the administration on the campus that by 11 p.m. last night, 8500 students had signed a petition asking for Kirk's ouster...
EVEN public officials react with amusement or indifference to the "population problem" of Cambridge. The public is aware of the population problem as it exists in the streets of India; the bloated belly of a child is immediately called to mind. The ironic result of the mass media's concern with this issue is the creation of a sensationalism of suffering which renders the public unresponsive and insensitive to the less graphic conditions that exist in this city...
...pull back, can't react...
Must pull back, don't react...
against each other and react...