Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite opposite schools of thought. One group of business leaders is unable to forget that always in the history of U.S. business whatever went up had to come down again sooner or later, and that such periods of general prosperity as the present have always brought on a reaction in industry and trade. This conservative school is thus intent on finding out weak spots in U. S. business, and many of its members have thought the chief two are the construction industry and the stock market...
...would obtain from membership in the Court to see the Congressmen who favor such membership putting forth purely negative reasons for it. Nevertheless they but reflect the suspicious attitude of the country-at-large that has rendered all international peace projects abortive since the war. Perhaps disillusionment, the inevitable reaction of the violent enthusiasm the war engendered, has been the cause of this timorous provincialism, for the triumph of the Allied arms was attended with an almost universal wave of longing for a new world order. Only eight years have passed since then, but now the United States in undertaking...
...obvious, however, that much depends upon the manner in which Seniors receive this extension of privilege. The results of the experiment will be watched closely by the Faculty, and if an orgy of promiscuous cutting follows the inauguration of the rule, the experiment will be adjudged a failure. A reaction would then inevitably follow which would retard for years the progress of this liberal movement in which Harvard may take a just pride in being the leader...
...time of Greek drama. In England, even Shakespeare and his contemporaries could not bring it back to that level. Playwrights and actors were not recognized socially until. Sir Henry lrving was knighted 20 years ago. England's stage is just recovering from the blow dealt it by the reaction after Cromwell and the Reformation...
...cannot deny that men ahungered are original causes in history; of that fear of security and dreams of gold have won many battles. But it is inevitable that a hard and fast insistence on the ultiquity of these motives calls for a reaction. Professor Holcombe's "Political Parties of Today", for example, discards, in its very logical history of Democratic and Republican politics, all forces less constant than King Cotton and King Corn. Excellent extremes like this are apt to annoy some humanist...