Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea that we can purge the American people by censorship is ridiculous. The favorite pastime of the American people is dirty jokes. The American people are more preoccupied with sex and more frightened of it than any others. We're just an obscene people." How does Wylie himself react to the national pastime? Yawned the savant of scatology: "I haven't heard a new dirty joke since I was twelve...
Higher than Jail? If the Supreme Court was in fact trying to tell the U.S. public how it should react toward Fifth Amendment pleaders, then the court had overstepped its legal province to become a social arbiter. While generally approving the decision, Reston's own Times felt bound to point out editorially: "A banker who invokes the Fifth Amendment when charged with embezzlement will scarcely retain the confidence of his depositors. Labor organizations need not continue to support a labor leader who invokes the Fifth Amendment or any other amendment to avoid accounting for union funds...
...perhaps the Yearbook has given us an accurate record of undergraduate failure to react to these things. Its inadequacies reinforce the observations which have already been made about our generation--that we are humorless, dry, undirected, inconclusive like the Yearbook, quiet. Or perhaps the trouble is Harvard, a Harvard with maturity and an inconclusive orthodoxy. Whether the fault is in our generation, feeling baffled and helpless, or merely in an aged and bloodless Harvard, Seniors will presently discover...
...standards in health, morality and marital fidelity"), scoffed in answer: "Then, if so, let's get to work on them. What do we do when the house catches fire, even the back room? Take a walk? . . . Most of us are getting tired of seeing ministers and laymen react as Southerners first and Christians second...
Peyote greatly heightens the individual's senses, causing him to react more sharply to sounds, smells, and light. It also distorts his perspective, often making him feel taller than he actually is. Mescalene reportedly incites mild delusions...