Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assumption of both a cultural and a racial aspect makes this renaissance the logical reaction to the fashionable Nordic propaganda of late years. But the suggestion of a cultural and racial alignment of Teuton against Mediterranean is rather formidable in the contemplation. A further thought, however, will convince that the turbulent and comparatively poor nations of the south can be imagining nothing so wild as conflict to secure their racial dignity. It is much more likely that the progress of Pan Latinism will find the Latins trying to emulate the more successful features of northern society, its industry, its educational...
...Like every reaction which takes hold of vast numbers of individuals there was present the very real danger that the pendulum would swing too far, that in freeing itself from a too dictatorial predecessor, the post war generation of Germany would cast off all restraint, and, in seeking freedom, find license...
...have read in every sort of periodical I should judge that the youth of America is facing many of the same problems which are before the German Youth Movement. Here there is not the same crying need for a social shake up that there is in Germany. Hence the reaction of youth to old standards is correspondingly less violent and perhaps less inspired...
Scouting around the outskirts of authoritative information, Robert Choate of the Boston Herald has been able to ascertain the general reaction among Democratic senators and congressmen to the approach of the mid-term elections. Although many men of influence, Senator Walsh among them, preferred to hold their peace, a number of lesser lights revealed a divergent drift under cover of a common watchword...
...course this is a reaction to Herbert Hoover's recent plea for material aid in that field. But he stressed a rather different point. His interest was, after all, in pure science. The interest of the "Post" is not. Believing with Dr. Penniman that a "university is a glorified factory" it suggests that "in giving money, prudent men desire to know in advance what knowledge it will buy what benefits it will confer." And here through the veneer the old surface shows. If the gown is to be guildered it must be a useful gown...