Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are not enough words in my vocabulary to describe my reaction to "The Strike-Out King" [Aug. 31]. My indignation is not directed against Pitcher Harry Murphy but against those adults who have made winning such an issue that children's baseball, once an enjoyable sport, becomes such an ordeal that a little eight-year-old boy wets his pants in public from fear. And what is worse is that it is not physical fear of pain; it is fear of certain humiliation...
...drastic measures were directed against it. The public seemed to like the idea of soaking the rich and the alien, while leading newspapers agreed that at least something drastic had to be done. But as business, with no capital to operate, ground to a standstill, the first reaction to Sukarno's bold move was stagnation and frustration...
...calmer reaction came from the Ottawa Journal: "If Mr. Kearns had taken the trouble to consult a few informed, responsible people, in Toronto, he would have avoided being 'shocked,' would have discovered that the Canadians who are crying havoc about U.S. investment are the sort of people who are always crying havoc about something and are not representative of Canadian opinion. Mr. Kearns then might have spared us his own excited talk...
Drifting south to Los Angeles, he went to work as a TV announcer. Within a month, the station was hit by a strike. Douglas' reaction: he conned three actors off the picket line and sold them (complete with sponsors) to a competing channel...
Though neither the captain nor Cunard would elaborate on the charges, word leaked out that the sacking-the first in Cunard's 119-year history-was Cunard's reaction to reports that Captain Armstrong, 55, had shown too much attention to women passengers at the captain's table. That raised the fascinating question of what the captain could possibly have done in a public dining hall to bring down his 3O-year career with Cunard...