Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dock. His wife's optometry business is three blocks away; stores and schools are just as close. Says Ruhr: "There is a little less of the bad things here?drugs, pollution. Being way up here, people have had a chance to see the crest of the wave coming and react to it. There's an attitude, too, that we've got a nice little thing and let's keep it that...
...turned to one of the non-believers in the Saturday night audience, and quoted one of Maharaj Ji's Mahatmas. "How do you react to this statement: Truth is the consciousness of bliss," she asked. "Is truth bliss?" he replied...
...PEOPLE REACT to these situations. The constant dependence on the international community for some hand-outs, for medical care and education, the humiliation of being stateless, of feeling unwanted in the host country may dull people or it may fill them with anger and rage. "The defeated, like myself," writes Turki, "took off to go away from the intolerable pressures of the Arab world to India and Europe and Australia, where they wrestled with the problem and hoped to understand. The reduced, like my parents, waited helplessly in a refugee camp for the world, for a miracle, or for some...
...sacrilege then that I saw there in the spring? People pawing the ground in uncertainty, stealing fidgety glances at eachother seeking a clue as to how to react, and when caught, breaking out into a clutching sort of giggling? Now, not all were so unsure of themselves. Some, patrons, most probably, moved sure-footed, nodding their knowing appreciation like privileged insiders. But most everyone else was plainly lost. It was as if a huge culture gap lay between those established who "got it" and the philistines...
...upshot is fear triggered in the bowels of the Cultural Establishment. And out of fear comes the wary sophisticated cool brought to the contemporary aesthetic experience--the cool so heavy with jargon-full appreciation, that self-consciously watches 'consciousness' react, that talks about 'experiencing' an art it knows not how to judge...