Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vance immediately began testing the working paper on Arab diplomats, including Egypt's Ismail Fahmy and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. The U.S. strategy was to discuss the working-paper provisions along with other American proposals that the Israelis had not agreed to, in hopes that Arab reaction might lead to further refinements of a formula for Geneva. Apparently the approach worked. As one leading Arab diplomat told TIME, "There have been more pluses than minuses for us in these sessions...
...Carter guilty of unnecessary roughness in dealing with Jerusalem? Administration spokesmen insist that the sharp Israeli reaction to the U.S.-Soviet statement did not mean the U.S. miscalculated in its strategy to stimulate a solution. Instead, they say, the problem lies in Israeli perceptions of diplomatic realities. Says one senior official: "They became hysterical. They read into that statement things that were never there." "It's the Holocaust mentality," said a White House aide. "If we're not behind them 300%, they think we're against them...
...eager reporter asked Van Vleck for his reaction to the news, but the half-asleep physicist, who had not made much news since his retirement in 1969, had no idea what the journalist meant...
...tell that Dartmouth is going to be in town this weekend for a football game, just by looking at any schedule of Harvard sports. There are other indications of the impending invasion from the North. The leaves are turning to yellow and red, a natural reaction for the Cambridge trees, which want to have no connection with the Big Green...
...they would be a suitable addition to the collection of manuscripts which the scholar left to Oxford. These memoirs, which recount Backhouse's sexual encounters with some of the most prominent figures of his time, are so obscene, that Trevor-Roper, upon reading them, first had the characteristic Backhousian reaction of preferring to run away from the problem rather than face it. But instead Trevor-Roper plunged deeper into the mystery and emerged with a biography of Backhouse based neither on what others have said about him nor on Backhouse's own exaggerated recollections of his life, but of some...