Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back snapshot recollections of vivid ceremony and unaffected friendliness. Dwight Eisenhower, the world's best-known, most respected statesman, lifted personal prestige and national influence to new highs from Rome to New Delhi to Paris. But equally as important as the President himself was the backdrop of popular reaction to his visits. His trip was a success because the American idea is a success; he had once and for all destroyed the myth that anti-Americanism prowls the world. The roaring welcomes defined no new world view of the U.S.; what they did was to dramatize the fact that...
Kept aglow by the hot breath of clerical argument, the sputtering dynamite charge of birth control-tossed gingerly from hand to hand among presidential candidates-last week landed in the middle of Dwight Eisenhower's news conference. What was the President's reaction, a newsman asked, to a recommendation made last July by a special presidential committee chaired by William H. Draper Jr., investment banker and industrialist? The Draper committee's recommendation: the U.S.. as part of its foreign aid program, should heed requests for assistance from nations trying to curb runaway population. Mindful...
...Moore started to turn the telescope toward it. But whenever the men moved, the gondola corkscrewed and rotated, vibrating all the time from their shivering. "It was very hard to point in a given direction," says Moore. "It showed that Newton's action and reaction theories are right. Everything we did produced an opposite reaction. It was like standing on an icy pond trying to push a car. All we did was push ourselves backward...
Blunt Inquiry. Protestant reaction to the statement was swift. It was tragic, said Dr. John C. Bennett, Congregational minister and faculty dean of New York's Union Theological Seminary, to see Catholic leaders pressing "a point of view . . . which has no sound moral or religious basis, and which has been rejected by most other Christian groups." The Catholic bishops' position, said Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, would "condemn rapidly increasing millions of people in less fortunate parts of the world to starvation, bondage, misery and despair." Bishop Pike, himself a convert from Roman Catholicism, demanded...
...show's chief liability is that bane of musicals, love, which-requited or unrequited-can seem banal. Even so, the show's chief asset. Director Abbott's testing everywhere for pace and pep, helps to shorten the doldrums. And for the evening as a whole, the reaction to the Abbott test is decidedly positive...