Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japan's semi-official reaction to the U. S. suggestion was a noncommittal offer to coöperate, but not until all nations had helped China "to effect her salvation by reestablishing order and preparing for the final consideration of the important problem of extraterritoriality, which is the most important in the Far East...
...Basking with them are semi-permanent guests, a durable male friend, a spirited girl cousin. To the baskers blows a breeze-news of a desirable position for the host in England. A jog is indicated in everyone's life. Clouds follow the breeze, each basker having a selfish reaction to this jog. Thunderheads follow clouds, each basker lying to himself about his selfish reaction. A storm bursts, with rumblings of anger, shaft of malice, gales of recrimination, deluges of tears. The sun reappears when, for a motive of her own, a delicious minor character-the spinster sister...
...Honegger's Pacific 231 (TIME, Oct. 27). Said Martinu: "As the composer, I beg to state that Half Time is not a sport composition . . . it registers no football game, no whistle of umpire or protests of the crowd. . . . The problem is one of rhythm and construction . . . a reaction against impressionism...
This was his reaction to a dispatch that had every indication of veracity; a story that, in Los Angeles, three men had been arrested, that the police had been tipped off and, shadowing them, had heard them plotting to kidnap for $100,000 ransom first Mary Pickford, then Pola Negri, Buster Keaton and a four-year-old grandson of Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate. The story came with apparent veracity of circumstance. One or more of the prisoners was reported to have confessed; they faced long prison terms for criminal conspiracy...
...authorities of Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, N. J. have abolished football. This is the first outburst of a reaction which many people have believed was bound to come against the present over-emphasis upon football in American colleges. The Stevens authorities, however, seem to have erred by going too far in the right direction. It is natural enough for any reaction to swing the pendulum to the opposite extreme Perhaps the movement to reform football is distined to take some such radical direction before it finally settles to a sensible point in between glorification and abolishment...