Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ocean of frivolity has gained advantage on the shore of the curriculum. Perhaps a reaction long overdue may manifest itself. To be most efficacious this ought to originate among the students themselves, and no one who knows the pervasive but latent idealism in our college boys can doubt that, once the movement has started, it would spread rapidly . . . It would make the pursuit of knowledge actually come first in the life of the student; and a man's rating in the esteem of his fellows would rest upon the persistency with which he fought toward that goal...
...Times puts it, "of quiet recuperation and of efforts to rebuild and enlarge English industry and commerce". The gains to Labor are due to split votes, the Daily Mail claims. While there is in England no turning away from socialism found wanting, there is nevertheless a decided reaction against Lloyd George liberalism...
Violently and quickly is the political pendulum swinging. A vital change comes in the policy of the Russian Government, a conservative reaction sweeps England, a Liberal ministry, is overthrown in Germany, a black-shirted dictator arises in Italy. Is the pendulum tending toward equilibrium again or is it becoming magnetized? And in that event on which side is the magnet...
...This reaction, blurred in all cases by local issues, is not a complete repudiation of socialistic tendencies, but is an expedient adopted because socialism in practice has been found an idea with too few heads to comprehend. There still remains in opposition a strong liberal element which will ride the wagon but not steer...
...Wirth, himself of the Centre Party, sought a Reichstag majority by placing in his cabinet a large proportion of Socialists. But the Rathenau murder and the Bavarian revolt revealed a strong monarchistic reaction which enlisted the industrialists headed by Hugo Stinnes and which concealed itself under the name of Liberal or People's Party. Hence the Wirth cabinet had arrayed against it not only the avowed monarchical Conservatives but the powerfully influential industrialists of the People's Party...