Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is sometimes difficult to explain. Thoreau wrote, "It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or a dog than to any human being." Sometimes the love of animals bespeaks an incapacity for the more complicated business of loving people; mental patients who react to other humans with fear and loathing can develop calm, tender relationships with puppies. Animals are usually perfectly themselves, not the elaborately perverse psychological mysteries that people seem to become. Animals, if not rabid, have a certain emotional reliability. But being on the side of the animals does not always make...
...turned out to be his last presidential address, "Many of our young people have been left with the notion that the highest values within the political and economic struggle can be attained primarily through protest, pickets, boycotts and civil disobedience. I admit with you that it is better to react peacefully against the evil forces of our system than to seek to attain by force and violence the rights to which we are entitled...
...information in your delightful cover story on babies [Aug. 15]. I am a registered nurse in the maternity unit of a New York hospital, and when I talk to babies just out of the delivery room they respond to my voice and other sounds. They see and react to a soothing touch and consistently avoid painful or frightening stimuli. In the first week of life they are much more aware than most people realize...
...should management react when a man and a woman, both competent and successful executives with the firm, fall in love? The answer is interesting enough, but so too is who is asking the question: the September/October issue of the Harvard Business Review, the premier American journal of management. Sandwiched between an article titled "Product Defects and Productivity" and one on "Cutting Down the Guesswork in R & D" is a piece on how to handle love and sex in the executive suite...
...century after that, German artists wore the virtuous American uniform of abstract art, as proof of their denazification. Now they breathe easier among their inherited imagery. At the same time, although there have been many dealers' shows of recent German art in America, museums have been slow to react to it. Consequently the exhibition that opened in June at the St. Louis Art Museum, and will go to New York City's PS. 1, a gallery housed in a former public school, in September, is of great interest: it is the first systematic museum show of this material...