Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marxism is their goal. Says Father Jon Sobrino, who teaches at the Universidad Centroamericana José Siméon Cañnas in San Salvador: "We Jesuits have not chosen an ideology. The basic problem is reality itself. When you see corpses or children starving, what makes you react is reality, not some abstract idea...
Many syndicated Washington columnists respond so predictably to events that they are merchandised to newspapers as liberal or conservative voices, as if editors needed a handy guide on how to balance their opinion pages. But all columnists sometimes react in unexpectedly revealing ways. A sampler of how columns are tilting this summer...
...allowed him to build a generous welfare state, in which every citizen is guaranteed food, housing and clothing. Although Gaddafi has alienated much of Libya's middle class and some military officers, his future does not appear threatened. "The Libyans are lethargic politically," says a Washington analyst. "They react to political turmoil by retreating to their tribes and clans." Even if Gaddafi's own countrymen put up with him, others, as last week's events demonstrated, may no longer be so tolerant...
These are not ordinary reruns, and it is probable that most viewers will react to them not just with pleasure but with shock and astonishment. What no one could have realized until now is that tele vision has not only changed since the '50s, with color and a dozen other technical advances, it has been transformed. It is, indeed, scarcely the same medium. The TV of the '80s is no more like that of the '50s than talking movies are like silents. The loss, it might be added, is immeasurable...
...will the government react when it becomes unable to solve a crisis, like its present economic problems...