Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect loyalty of his character." It was significant of the world's opinion that editors everywhere wasted little time with formal obituaries. In Germany newspapers were black bordered, Stresemann's seat in the Reichstag was draped in black, his desk piled high with flowers, but the instinctive reaction of editors and public alike was "Who in Germany can take his place?" Said Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts: "The problem of finding a worthy successor to Dr. Stresemann is one of life and death to Germany...
...film the emotional moments are smoothly presented, with the gaps in slow-moving scenes filled in by the musical accompaniment; but as soon as the dialogue begins, and the Movietone records Charles Morton's body-shaking sobs as short, shrill, barks, the screen sadness produces an equal and opposite reaction, and the audience laughs. That temporarily destroys the soothing effect of Janet Gaynor's voice and the generally superior acting of the cast; but before the end, peace is restored, and one is able to appreciate the picture again. Nancy Drexel and Barry Norton do well as the running mates...
...Imperial Reaction. "Let Us Get Out of Palestine!" blared last week the potent London news organs of Baron Beaverbrook, famed "Hearst of England." Above his own signature the blatant Baron declared...
Rumanians are an earthy people. Last week, as lovely Lisl Goldarbeiter stepped off the Vienna Express at Bucharest, she was met by an ogglesome throng of youths whose reaction soon became riotously negative. "Give us someone our weight!" roared voices from the crowd. "A bent pin for the Austrian Jewess! Give us Magda Dimitrescu ?Magda is our weight...
What, if anything, does music mean to you beyond the usual reaction which most people have to rhythm and melody...