Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...built unnatural barriers between the nations of Europe and these barriers have also been sustained since the war. It was as a natural reaction to what we may call this long embargo upon their countries that students began to destroy these artificial barriers. Many thousands of European students went back from the War with the horrible experiences of this cataclysm; was it not natural that they began to think how can we prevent the recurrence of such a disaster? I do not mean that this was the feeling of the masses of the students. In some of the new countries...
...Lauro de Bosis, Royal Commissioner of the Italian Art Exhibit in America and Director of the Classical Theatre on the Palatine in Rome, will speak on "The History of Culture in Italy:. The Reaction to the Middle Ages" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum...
...explanation of the great vogue of these periodicals is simple enough. The relaxation and reaction from prurient Victorian prudery has extended to the masses. The post-war restlessness completed the swing and it was accentuated by returning soldiers who had come into touch with French pornographic writing. Formerly, sex in literature was more or less restricted to intellectuals. Save for an occasional surreptitious exception the literature of the multitudes was as chaste as an Horatio Alger Jr. or a Mary Jane Holmes could make it. Who outside the intelligentsia read Beardsley, Beaudelaise, or could understand the more esoteric work...
There can be no other sane reaction than unqualified approval of the joint agreement of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton Athletic Committees to increase their athletic revenues by raising the price of football tickets. Most significant of the new attitude toward sport is the avowed intention to apply the resultant increase in funds "solely to maintenance and development of general athletic facilities and not to increasing the budgets of intercollegiate athletic teams." The idea of "athletics for all" has recently come noticeably to the fore in theory; here is a definite step toward putting this theory into practice...
...discussing the sudden drop in the stock market Professor Cunningham said that he thought it due more to a natural reaction to the former high inflation than to the effect of the collapse of the Nickel Plate merger, that the bubble of speculation had already reached undue proportions and needed only the prick of some such shock as this to make it burst...