Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Applause & Repudiation. Reaction came swiftly, both in applause and repudiation of Daley's orders. "A fascist's response," protested the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Chicago's Operation Breadbasket (TIME, March 1) and a longtime aide of Martin Luther King. "The mayor may have a killing program for the dreamers, but he has no program that can kill the dreams." Arthur J. Bilek, a former Chicago police lieutenant now administering the criminal justice curriculum at the University of Illinois, said: "A bullet fired into the body of a suspected looter is, after all, a quite irrevocable...
...Reaction to the mixed-media spiritual message was understandably mixed. "There is no question that the multimedia sermon is the coming thing," said the Rev. Edward Theisen of Milwaukee. "To appeal to the whole man, which multimedia purports to do, provides an answer." But many of the preaching experts were decidedly cool. Some questioned whether audiovisual imagery can actually say more about Christian faith than an inspired verbal sermon. Still others felt that Schillaci's superhip technique was a lot more appropriate to a college campus than an urban congregation...
...action of the film consists of his running through endless corridors, largely seen through computer monitors. The idea is simple and effective, and extraordinarily well filmed; the initial shot of the rebel, THX 1138 4EB, running toward the camera of a closed-circuit television instantly evokes a gut empathetic reaction, and the color and opticals (dissolves mostly) are employed with flair and discipline. If it all seems insubstantial when it's over, at least Lucas has made a valid stylistic exercise from a serviceable cinematic premise...
Congress' reaction to the 1932 kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son was shock, rage and a stiff law: "Whoever knowingly transports in interstate commerce any person who has been unlawfully kidnaped and held for ransom or otherwise, shall be punished by death if the kidnaped person has not been liberated unharmed and if the verdict of the jury shall so recommend." Last week, on the basis of the jury verdict last clause, the Supreme Court struck down the Lindbergh law's death-penalty provision...
...Riot Commission Report. Later he called the Report "a landmark in race relations" and commented that there were no Negroes in the Commission's research division. "I'm not sure this analysis would have been done by Negro social scientists," he said. But Moynihan prefers to emphasize the "scandalous" reaction of the President whose most extensive comment on the Report has been to recommend it to a luncheon audience of businessmen. "The administration consists of nothing but a bunch of patio liberals," Moynihan charged, including Vice-President Humphrey who has hinted that the administration was displeased to find no mention...