Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vincent Sheean, one of the last men to give up a fight against reaction, wrote democratic Spain's obituary when, after inspecting the scene, he reported...
...world's first reaction to Barcelona's fall was perplexity. Why did a city of 2,000,000 people, the reddest town on earth outside Russia, surrender to the Fascists as soon as they reached the suburbs? The explanation was that a metropolis divided against itself-and hungry-also falls...
...last week three days before Barcelona. Stock prices had been weak since the first of the year and when last week's break came they were already back at what Dow theorists call "resistance levels" (146 for Dow-Jones industrial averages, 28.8 for railroads) set by the previous reaction in November and December. Both industrial and railroad averages plummeted through these levels on heavy trading volume...
...reaction of the spectators indicates that we are all still more or less barbarians and cannibals. Some onlookers are genuinely dumfounded at the mass mayhem they are seeing, but the majority enjoy themselves mightily, exhorting the contestants to "chop that goalie into little pieces," "rip off his leg if he tries that again," "give him a good one right between the eyes...
Such phrases, released by Dr. Bailey to gauge public reaction to his translation-on which he has labored for 35 years-worked like a charm. They brought prompt denunciations. Said Chicago's Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart: "A fake translation, destroying the fragrance and beauty of the Bible." Dr. John Scott, retired Northwestern Greek scholar: "A parody." Dr. William Andrew Irwin, Chicago Old Testament professor: "There is no need to vulgarize the Bible...