Word: reaction
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...which was all clips of old movies showcasing old American film heroes in which the Westerns were prominent examples, and in particular John Wayne in The Searchers. So we kept returning to this Cowboy and Indian mythology, and I wanted to understand why. It didn't seem like a reaction to the actual threat which was coming from engineering students in jumbo jets, not Indians on the Great Plains...
...media coverage that immediately followed 9/11, Faludi said that she uncovered a bizarre slew of stories that, unexpectedly, focused on bringing back traditional family arrangements.Faludi, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who has penned two previous books, says that the sudden movement towards traditional family arrangements was a reaction to the trauma of Sept. 11.“On that day, we suffered a physical attack that destroyed buildings and people, and a symbolic attack that destroyed the myth of invincibility,” Faludi said. The nation as a whole then turned to a mythical frontier past to cover...
...Many Americans, including some right here at Harvard still don’t care enough to do their small part to curb the greenhouse gas emissions. Three separate factors make inaction on climate change not only the easiest, but also the most logical, reaction for some...
...this mind-set, this gut reaction to Bali and 9/11, that drew us into two wars without end, Iraq and Afghanistan. It was the same reaction that has led to such excesses as Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and allegations of torture...
...survey that I did, it's really interesting; 56% of people felt that in order to be successful they had to slow their lives down. But 77% felt that things would only speed up in the next five years. So the knee-jerk reaction is that in order for us to feel like we're enjoying anything, we have to slow down. [But] things aren't slowing down...