Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know, I'm the guy to play this part and if you don't see that you're an idiot." That's literally what I said to him. I thought it might be kind of interesting to challenge him in that way, just to see how he'd react, and if I didn't get the part I guess that wasn't a good idea. But I think that Bo kind of saw a lot of himself in that remark, and it worked out pretty good...
...landscape changed in the spring, but I decided not to react instantaneously, but to analyze and discuss--for us--how we could move to improve the educational experience of our students," Knowles said...
...course, our fascination with polls obscures other issues too, including ones closer to home. We watch closely to see how Americans react to proposals for health care and social security reform, yet we care little about the proposals themselves. Few of us knew even the most basic details of Clinton's 1994 health care plan or Republican proposals for reducing the rate of increase of social security payments. All we knew was that most Americans disapproved of those plans, and that seemed to be enough...
...these people's presence, to see what they look like without the filter of a camera's lens, to be able to say that they saw them. But the real reason these figures draw such crowds is because they are people to whom we feel a need to react. They represent something important to us, whether something we admire or something we scorn. For that reason, of all the highnesses and holinesses that have appeared on our campus in recent years, two were exceptional: Nelson Mandela and Jiang Zemin...
...reception in terms of my Catholic Christianity. In fact, I feel a great deal more comfortable at Harvard celebrating my heritage as a young black man in the second half of the twentieth century than in trumpeting my religion. I wonder how the Puritans who founded this institution would react to that. Despite my adviser's amiable response, I probably won't mention religion to any great extent in my senior thesis on community service as democratic participation. Nor will I offer the religious answers to secular questions I encounter in sections and discussions every day, answers that not only...