Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heated reaction from Reagan's longtime supporters sowed further discord within an Administration that had not made up its mind about the wisdom of either agreement. As Reagan waffled last week, first embracing the Guatemala plan, then amending his own accord, the White House found itself attacked on all sides. On Friday, Central American Special Envoy Philip Habib resigned, reportedly because he was not consulted on the Reagan-Wright accord and was doubtful that the Guatemala plan would work...
...Executive Director J. James Marzilli says that Cyr's decision was not as principled as he would have people believe. "He's got a lot of friends who have a negative gut reaction to the CCA. If he joined with it, he'd lose their votes." But that gut reaction is precisely what Cyr is trying to capitalize...
...when there is a problem, Harvard's typical first reaction is to save its own skin, at the expense of an organization it has worked over the past century to establish in the community. Instead, University Hall relegated the problem to Frank Rose--the administrator made famous when he implemented a new time-table for shuttle buses one week before he was supposed to, wreaking havoc among Quad students trying to make it to class. Is a foul-up this big really a problem for shuttle bus managers, or for more experienced--and more higly placed--officials...
...pals like Robert ("Buffalo Bob") Smith, 69. In recent years Smith has made a second career of appearances at colleges and shopping malls, playing to audiences who grew up on Howdy Doody. Comparing them with the peanut gallery assembled for the special, he says, "We get the exact same reaction from kids today that we did 35 years ago on the same routines. It works every time." Kowabunga...
There is reason to wish him well, but also reason for skepticism. More often than not, the legacy of Russian and Soviet reformers has been reaction. Thaws have turned to chills. So far, much of the Gorbachev phenomenon is words. Andrei Gromyko, the longtime Foreign Minister who two years ago became the country's largely ceremonial President, used to say there is a big difference between words and deeds. Yet in a country where one can be sent to the Gulag for saying the wrong thing, words are deeds. In a closed, hidebound dictatorship, Gorbachev's slogans of openness, restructuring...