Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chauvinistic in the worst "ugly-American" sense in its crude mockery of the ritual language of one of the Black minority religions discussed in my course. I urge you to contemplate the reaction of the Harvard community to an article written by a Black West Indian student which began with a contemptuous jeering at the beliefs of the Jewish or Catholic faiths...
Deinstitutionalization fit perfectly into the antiauthoritarian zeitgeist of the '60s and early '70s. Radical Psychiatrist R.D. Laing popularized the rather romantic notion that insanity could be a sane reaction to an insane world, while Sociologist Erving Goffman suggested that institutions, by their very nature, stifled individual development. Courts began to protect the rights of the mentally ill against the encroachments of the state. But in the 1980s, the continual seesaw in America between individual freedom and society's responsibility is tipping again...
...more important reaction to the foreign buyathon would be for Americans to adopt healthier economic habits. Those especially include a concentration on selling more exports and a curbing of the appetite for foreign goods, particularly luxury consumer items. Even there, the current bargain-basement sale of U.S. assets may eventually prove to be of some help. Quick to recognize the export advantages of the weak U.S. dollar, for example, the new management at Hoechst Celanese has already decided to move some chemical production from West German factories to American ones. At the same time, new managers like Sir Gordon White...
...that relationship began in 1965, with the Second Vatican Council's decree denouncing anti-Semitism. But the Holy See still does not recognize Israel. And there have been other disputes, none more charged than the angry Jewish reaction to the audience John Paul granted to Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in June. Waldheim has been accused of complicity in Nazi war crimes and consequently is unwelcome in numerous Western nations, including the U.S. The Vatican argues that declining to receive Waldheim would have been tantamount to judging him guilty.* Dismayed that John Paul made no mention of the Holocaust during Waldheim...
...Washington, the reaction to the Iraqi resumption of the tanker war was thinly disguised exasperation. After the initial Iraqi air attacks, Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, summoned Iraqi Ambassador Nazir Hamdoon to his office for a firm dressing down. Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost later summed up the U.S. view by saying the Iraqi action was "very regrettable, extremely unfortunate." The timing of the raids was "deplorable," he said, both because they create a new threat to U.S. warships in the gulf and because they came at a moment when Iran...