Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much congressional reaction was bitter, and it seemed evident that he had hardened opposition to his Safeguard ABM plan into the bargain. Said Senator James Pearson, a Kansas Republican and an ABM foe: "I disagree with the President. I don't think it's isolationism to oppose excessive military spending." Some Democratic Senators were more abrupt. Said Albert Gore of Tennessee: "It sounded like the old Nixon I used to know." But Nixon won support from Louisiana's Russell Long and Virginia's Harry Byrd Jr. Noted Byrd: "I think he said some things which needed...
...laws. At many universities in the past two years, it was clear that authorities agreed to reforms after, rather than before, upheavals. Thus it should not be surprising that the alienated young occasionally carry this approach to irrational extremes, ignoring that point on the violence scale where protest evokes reaction and repression, not reform...
...this paradox has puzzled the world and, especially in the past few strife-torn years, America itself. Last week a group of historians, social scientists and lawyers told the nation what many Americans had al ready suspected: "We have become a rather bloody-minded people in both action and reaction...
...diversion of energy from the essential functions of the University--proves that disruptive tactics cannot become a recurrent method of government or progress. Surely, the members of this community and especially the students have enough imagination to produce the benefits without the costs. Confrontation, violent action and reaction, the radicalization of some and the alienation of others are not constructive in themselves...
...right decisions. This raisse a fierce moral problem: there is a question of individual conscience, the right to remain constricted, one might say. I hear my heroes laughing at my very rhetoric, so I will switch to a tactical argument; stable liberation, whatever it might mean, must be reaction to internal needs, not to external circumstances. It is mere intellectual arrogance to point out to a Harvard student that the life is being squeezed out of him; if it's true for him he should know that on his own. The arrogance involved in believing that one is qualified...