Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...especially the Dean's Office, is considerably more sensitive to what the general public thinks about Harvard than it used to be. The Dean's Office doesn't want undergraduate groups bearing the Harvard name to do things that will, in its opinion, cause an unfavorable public relation reaction against Harvard...
What effect Canada's more self-assertive foreign policy might have outside the country remained to be seen. But there was no doubt about the reaction at home. Members of Parliament thumped their desks enthusiastically. Newspapers hailed Pearson's speech as "a penetrating analysis" and "a masterly survey." For a change, Canadians clearly liked a little muscle-flexing in foreign affairs...
...Reaction. In the U.S. the repercussions came fast. The National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington, D.C. explained that the Pope's speech was not "a newly arrived at position . . . The common view of theologians holds that the act of the judge in pronouncing a divorce is merely an official declaration that the state regards the civil effects of the marriage as no longer existing. Since this declaration is in itself a morally indifferent action, it can be permitted, at least in certain circumstances...
...acquiescence with which we accept them. A prophetic eye would discern in the chairs a sign of a new attitude toward education, and perhaps also in their slow but sure advance, Hitler-fashion, from classroom to classroom, a symbol of the gradual and easy deception and deadening of popular reaction...
...York political fight has been heralded as an indication of the nation's reaction to President Truman's "Fair Deal" program...