Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge community reaction to the purchase will depend on what Harvard eventually does with the land, Vickery said. "If it's just another piece of property off the tax rolls, that wouldn't be good," he said, but if Harvard builds new housing or parking space there might be little or no protest...
...practical conditions at the time, the signing of that treaty had the perfectly foreseeable consequence of throwing a lighted match into a powder keg. That treaty came about when the Vietnamese army was substantially concentrated on the Cambodian frontier, so the treaty gave the Vietnamese reassurance against a Chinese reaction to their aggression in Cambodia. Now I happen to believe that the Cambodian government [of Pol Pot] was a group of genocidal murderers. But that was not why the Vietnamese went into Cambodia; they went in because the Cambodian Communists wanted to be independent of Viet...
Like many leftist groups, the New Right traces its origin to the turbulent events of May 1968. In reaction to that upheaval of the left, Benoist and a number of similar-minded rightists organized a counterrevolutionary society called GRECE (a French acronym for Research and Study Group on European Civilization). The organization sponsored publications and seminars on such topics as racism, eugenics and Nietzschean ethics...
...twelve-year-old prostitutes, and they were played by girls who really were twelve?Brooke Shields in Louis Malle's misty legend of 1917 New Orleans, Pretty Baby, and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's contemporary shocker, Taxi Driver. Each movie caused a mild outcry, but the general reaction was nervous acceptance. The phenomenon they dealt with was real enough; as Malle took to pointing out, you can hire a twelve-year-old whore any night on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue...
...Exorcist stirred the black undercurrents of movies like these into a raging tide of levitating beds and spinning heads. Through all this, Linda Blair remained determinedly professional. The boomlet of satanic kiddie movies like The Omen has not entirely receded. Consequently, there has been a small reaction back toward the Shirley Temple style. Quinn Cummings' appearances in The Goodbye Girl and TV's Family stir memories of dear Bonnie Blue...