Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more cowardly than Frondizi." Then Castro shifted his glare to an old foe, Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, who recently sharply criticized Argentina's military for overthrowing President Arturo Frondizi. Cried Castro: "Who is Señor Betancourt but a murderer of workers and students? And how does he react in the face of the Argentine case? Like a blushing prostitute...
...driving the subject from relative sanity to madness in less than a day, by using a peculiarly inhuman sort of disorder (the girl expects God to come through a wall), and by eschewing both the flashbacks and the reminiscences that might give perspective upon the way those around her react to her disintegration...
Just as conservatism reflects moral rigidity, liberalism reflects permissiveness. Being a relativist in intellectual outlook and a devotee of the scientific method, the liberal lacks morals, accepts expression of all views, and refuses to react against "statism." What Mr. Evans says suggests an extremely interesting conclusion which he himself shies away from. The conservatist he describes seeks the freedom to indulge in self-perfection (insofar as perfection is achievable); the liberal seeks the freedom of self-expression. The extent of the difference--in fact, contradiction-- between these two concepts of freedom is best expressed by the conservatives' reluctance to permit...
This is not the attitude of an educator, but of an administrator; it is the statement of a man who feels that he should react to the inconvenient expressions of undergraduates by preventing them. The university has the right to suspend publication, for it subsidizes the paper, but the function of a university administration is to create an atmosphere in which mistakes may be profitably made, in which doubtful opinions may be expressed, in which bad judgments are also a way of learning. Destruction of such expression is the act of a bureaucracy more concerned with its own comfort than...
...drugs given to House Speaker Sam Rayburn in his last illness. These chemicals were developed in the hope that cancer cells would be fooled into using them instead of normal metabolic building blocks, which they closely resemble. Dr. Kaufman reasoned that cells invaded by viruses might react the same way, and thus be saved from helping the virus to reproduce...