Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stalin's daughter, after defecting from the Soviet Union while in India, applied to the United States for asylum. The State Department refused her request and arranged for Miss Stalin's asylum in Switzerland, apparently because of fear of adverse Soviet reaction...
Hollander said yesterday that he did not think this would promote better Soviet-American relations. "This is just my private feeling," he said, "but I think the only Soviet reaction is probably one of contempt...
...goodly portion of Africans studying here find Americans outgoing and eager to help, but sometimes in a gnawingly superficial way. One Ivy League student analyzed our reaction this way: "The Americans are friendly and the most accommodating group you'll ever meet. But, this willingness to associate with others--a legacy of their informality -- lacks African warmth and European depth. The African looks for progressive personal understanding, which in many cases means asking too much...
...plunge deeper into an undeclared war," a tentative version of the letter says, "about whose purpose many are in doubt could produce an increased spirit of non-cooperation among those who have to bear its brunt. Such a reaction cannot be averted much longer by continuing the series of optimistic military forecasts that have undermined the reputations for foresight of high American officials over the past several years...
Alan Richards, as young Ekdal, is on the verge of a well-formed characterization. He has the arrogance and naivete down pat; what he lacks becomes obvious in the last act, when Ekdal must react to his daughter's death. Richards' only reaction is to raise his voice, which gives quantity but not quality to his emotion...