Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only did the 1960s spur students into joining community causes, but it witnessed a counter-culture movement which translated into "a reaction against homogenity and a desire for distinctiveness," Riesman says...
...Union was ready to make an agreement to eliminate medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe. Because the Soviets have a vast superiority in short-range weapons, which are sited in East Germany and Czechoslovakia and can hit targets over distances of up to 600 miles, the initial West European reaction to the Soviet statement was decidedly cool. Last week Gorbachev said Moscow was also ready to discuss a cutback in short-range weapons. The offer was obviously made in preparation for this week's visit to Moscow by U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, and President Reagan later praised...
...expected to call elections sometime this year, certainly bolstered her stature among voters at home -- and among Britain's allies on the Continent. Indeed, she had prepped for the trip by meeting with key West European leaders, and she was anxious to register their measured and skeptical reaction to Gorbachev's proposal for withdrawing all U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear forces from Europe...
...says such a reaction is unjustified. "We never had anyone's financial status in mind [in making the guest list]," he says. "If we wanted to do something for rich people, why would we emphasize the cause? It wasn't coming out party. It's not an exclusive, closed organization. We're there to raise money and provide a service to students at Harvard and the Boston area...
...that complemented the stepped-up rebel activity in the Nicaraguan countryside: the contras' urban offensive seemed to have begun. Sandinista officials promptly blamed the Reagan Administration. Trumpeted a banner headline in the daily party organ, Barricada: IT COULD HAVE BEEN A MASSACRE. In Washington, officials had quite a different reaction to the bungled strike. "They went all that way, got the charge wired in, then they screwed it up," moaned an Administration official. "These guys are like the gang that couldn't shoot straight...