Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RESEARCHERS who sunk billions of dollars in hopes of producing energy by nuclear fusion must be kicking themselves. Until recently, conventional wisdom in the physics world had it that the only way to feasibly derive energy from a controlled fusion reaction was to subject hydrogen nuclei to extreme pressures and temperatures of millions of degrees...
...that, while neither style of activism is demonstrably superior, both require mass participation--a key criterion by which much of today's activism falls short--regardless of the tactics. Although the radical ideology and tactics of the '69 strikers may well have alienated the administration and fueled reaction, the very vehemence of the '69 protests got results...
...Bush's reaction to the catastrophic Alaskan oil spill two weeks ago is a prime example. After the spill, the White House expressed some sympathy, but seemed unwilling to act in any manner. Instead of offering federal assistance, or even using the spill as a chance to speak out on a disturbing ecological issue, Bush decided to let Exxon handle the cleanup and said nothing more...
...marriage, the preoccupation of the commercial stage in the West. Acting is certainly of the caliber of Broadway or London. So is stage design, if a bit too dependent on imaginative metaphor rather than money. True, productions tend to look a lot alike, regardless of content: perhaps as a reaction against the easy intimacy of TV's close-ups, almost every company seems infatuated with mounting shows in gloomy near darkness or in silhouette behind a scrim. Moreover, many of the popular tricks of stagecraft (a costumed mannequin standing amid the audience's seats, a door flinging open to reveal...
Wilkinson calls it "a reaction to a period when less attention was paid to teaching [and to] subsequent pressure by students who want teaching to be on a high level...