Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commissioner of baseball, one reporter asked an official if the name that was leaked earlier was indeed the choice of the team owners. "Yes," the reporters were told, "it is Bowie Kuhn, but please, gentlemen, act surprised." They did-but it was no act. Sportscaster Red Barber's reaction was typical: "Who? I never heard...
...apathetic as social critics usually portray them? Perhaps not. In what the American Association for the Advancement of Science calls 1968's best sociopsychological research, Professors John M. Darley of Princeton and Bibb Latané of Ohio State portray homo urbanus in an entirely different light. Testing the reaction of college students to a feigned emergency, they found that the emotions of those who remained quiet hardly registered what could be called indifference. Often their hands trembled, their palms sweated. If anything, they were more nervous than those who reported the crisis. "The bystander," conclude Darley and Latan...
President Nixon's suggestion that "preventive detention" would be one good remedy for crime in the District of Columbia met with sharply divided reaction on Capitol Hill. West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd applauded the idea of pretrial jailing of accused criminals thought likely to break the law while out on bail. "Unless we have a safe society," said Byrd, "we are not going to have a free society." But North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin Jr., a member of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee and usually no supporter of libertarian causes, was incensed. Preventive detention, he said...
INSTEAD, Witcover spends much of his time talking about the press's reaction to Kennedy and his campaign. The closeness which develops between the working press who follow the candidate continuously, the candidate's staff, and the candidate himself makes for interesting reading...
Johnson's reaction to the piece was very mild, Miss Kearns said. "I think he took it as a challenge," she said. "Every time I saw him he'd ask 'Written anything about me lately...