Word: react
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students and faculty had mixed reactions to Hall's efforts to bring business efficiency and innovations to academia, Joyce hopes they will react positively to his efforts...
Carter's single-mindedness and occasional self-righteousness raise questions about what he might be like as President. If he failed to get his own way, how would he react? Could he handle the give-and-take of diplomatic negotiations? Would he be able to compromise with Congress? Would he rather, in his own words, "go down in flames" than modify his own convictions? If he were as unbending as he professes to be, his disillusionment and frustration in the White House could be acute. Woodrow Wilson defied the Senate in his zealous crusade for the League of Nations; ultimately...
...esteemed by highway patrols and police for its ever-increasing role in reporting accidents, crimes, stolen cars, fires, traffic tie-ups, even reckless drivers ("Harvey Wallbangers"). Several volunteer organizations of CBers have sprung up to monitor the air waves and provide round-the-clock emergency services. The biggest, called REACT (for Radio Emergency Associated Citizens Teams), claims more than 70,000 members in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, seven Canadian provinces and West Germany. Since its formation in 1962, REACT claims to have handled 35 million emergency calls, including 12 million highway accidents...
...group who were hired after the Fathers Berrigan were accused of plotting to kidnap government officials and blow up buildings. Although we expect these recruits to be of a Young-Americans-for-Freedom stripe, they emerge in Ungar's description as "loose and free-thinking agents" who do not react to events "on the basis of knee-jerk instincts...
...team man, playing chamber music with such artists as Alexander Schneider, Rudolf Serkin and Pablo Casals, whom he met at the Marlboro Music Festival. At the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan, Perahia studied conducting with Carl Bamberger. "I was very involved in absolute music, in how certain notes react to one another," he says. Only after he graduated did he become fascinated by the demands and mysteries of solo performing...