Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least, this kind of reaction to a TIME story does not happen every week. When it does, however, we are happy to hear about it. Good luck to Producer Hornblow and his new picture...
...three concert shows. But Artie wasn't giving up. He planned to soup up the amplifiers so he could really dump it in their laps. And he thought he would change some of his programming-he had learned enough, he said, "to lecture at Juilliard on public reaction to modern music." So he was just going to keep on attacking the Great Wall of China with his little nail file...
...Wilhelm Furtwangler, now shelved in the U.S. because of his Nazi leanings (TIME, Jan. 17), admitted to a gnawing distrust of the tastes of audiences in general. An audience, he wrote, is "a mass without a will of its own . . . which reacts automatically to any stimulus. Its first reaction is frequently right, but very often it is thoroughly wrong. How could we otherwise explain that operas like Carmen, A'ida and La Boheme, today among the most durable successes, flopped* completely when performed for the first time...
...said 'yes', and the Atomic Age was born at that moment." Roosevelt goes on to tell of Conant's jobs on the Top Policy Group in charge of atomic energy, his administrative work on the Manhattan project, and his emotional reaction to the New Mexico test of the bomb, which he watched huddled face down in a trench with his associates, "violently intense...
There has been the same fatalistic reaction to the news that a Communist assault-or perhaps merely a peaceful occupation-might be imminent. Said a cobbler in the Fu Tze-miao, Nanking's chief bazaar: "The war is lost. Let them come. Shuikuan [Who cares...