Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garrison Prize Poem, by A. Morley Dobson, shows much skill in the difficult sestina, but far too little depth of judgement. In more senses than one, it is simple to uphold one side of the Flume controversy, and only to rhapsodize, not judge, or analyze the question. The normal reaction from this sort of thing has been expressed by an undergraduate some months ago, in the Harvard Magazine...
...labor unrest no more advanced today than they were at this time last year, and with the country becoming more involved with each new twist which the tide of industrial foment takes, careful analysis of the root of our inability to cope with the situation shows that dread reaction on the part of half the population renders any plausible suggestions proffered by the other half useless. The condition today is nearly identical with that in England just one hundred years ago, when, fearing the spread of the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution, reactionary feeling and inordinately repressive laws forced...
...such a spirit as this which prevents progress, which continues the discontent that already exists; it is this hot-headed reaction that must be overcome. Not bigotry, not the exclusion of duly elected socialists, not the rounding up and temporary imprisonment of inoffensive aliens, but freedom of expression and open-mindedness are the methods by which improvements must come. The times are serious; and we should profit by history. There is little cause for our terrified excitement and alarm. The country should cool down...
...Treaty fight has shown. In both the old parties the more radical elements are threatening to wrest the sceptre from the grasp of the "Old Guard." With elements in both parties striving to outdo each other in radicalism, there will be an opportunity for constructive statesmanship untainted with reaction to acquire the political balance of power, without the disruption which attends the birth of a third party. This is the opportunity for patriotic service which the Chicago and San Francisco conventions should not allow to slip through their hands...
...undergraduate who has struggled through the spring performances of the Pudding and the Pi Eta without getting any satisfactory reaction from a deep voiced line of pesudo chorines will find in the new Vincent Club presentation of "Satni" at the Wilbur an amateur theatrical which it is a privilege and a joy to watch. It is a true privilege and a joy to watch. It is a true privilege, too, for until this year Vincent shows have been more strictly taboo for men than any Sultan's harem; it is to be hoped that the ban, once lifted, will...