Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...belief that society can be based on the power of self-directed personality; others apparently define it as a certain openness of mind. Whatever the fundamental idea which the individual student may evolve for himself, it does seem important that some such formulation take place. Otherwise, step by step reaction may creep in. A university is obviously a place for speculative thought, and if the American rush towards materialism is to be counterbalanced by some philosophical thought, this University and others must begin to assume their proper sphere of duty...
Gratifying as it is to notice a thorough-going reaction on the part of the student body at Harvard University as regards Professor Baker's resignation and all that this meant for Harvard as a seat of learning and culture, it is more than disheartening to learn that Harvard's President in his several addresses at the alumni clubs of the University has tried to justify and defend the attitude of the Board of Trustees toward the same question; on what grounds, for what reason?--simply because a theatre for young playwrights and authors would be a useless fixture...
France. La Liberté, Paris journal, summed up neatly the reaction of France to the British note...
Perversely the serpent censorship refuses to die. The Puritans revived it and brought on as a result the reaction of an unrestrained Restoration era. Even today the abortive principle occasionally raises its ugly head. Fortunately the very absurdity of the events and comments it drags in its wake are enough to disclose its own true and repelling nature...
...coiling back from a cataract. To find fault with contemporary lyricists because they make no attempt to reproduce on their melodious halmas, their tinkling clavichords, the surge and thunder of the Odyssey is an error in criticism. They do not belong to the period the less by being in reaction against its stridencies. Among the more capable halma players is William, Griffith. His note is small, facile; it has the grace of not taking its grace too seriously. Of Pierrot the poet he sings, and of Pierrette who is beauty; their loves and losses, songs, sighs, their tears that fall...