Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relative moderation to date of Congressional reaction to campus tumult may, in part, be due to a belated realization that repressive legislation is an inadequate and perhaps even counter-productive response to university problems. In a report on college unrest sent to President Nixon on June 17, a group of 22 Republican Congressmen said that...
...harried college administrators, looking over their shoulders to Capitol Hill, were worried that the "student unrest" would prove to be a spur for repressive legislation--against students, and perhaps indirectly, against the universities themselves. While the final legislative results are not in, it does appear, however, that the Congressional reaction to campus commotion has thus far been surprisingly mild...
...chewing on a bone. "It's that pig," an off-screen voice tells her, adding as an afterthought, "with those English tourists mixed in." "The ones from the Rolls-Royce?" she asks. "There must be some of your husband too," the voice answers. She continues eating with no reaction. The word "fin" appears on the screen, enlarged at once to "fin du conte" and then changed to "fin du cinema." The sequence reveals Godard's awareness that in Weekend he destroyed the only cinema he loves--the American narrative ("conte") film...
...right decisions. This raise a fierce moral problem: there is a question of individual conscience, the right to remain constricted, one might say. I hear my heroes laughing at my rhetoric, so I will switch to a tactical argument: stable liberation, whatever it might mean, must be reaction to internal needs, not to external circumstances. It is mere intellectual arrogance to point our to a Harvard student that the life is being squeezed out of him if it's true for him he should know that on his own. The arrogance involved in believing that one is qualified...
Love Slaves. Resenting the man they miss is a common reaction among wives with severe separation pangs. "It's a natural reaction to be angry," says Detroit Psychiatrist Emanuel Tanay. "You certainly can't feel loving toward the source of your depression." One compensation is withdrawal into the solace of pills or liquor, or into a social frenzy that produces "emotional anesthesia." Other wives retaliate-occasionally with infidelity, more often by giving their returning husbands a chilly reception. "When he's away," one submariner's wife told Dr. Isay, "there's nothing on my mind...