Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sportscaster Jim McKay "in the 30 seconds between two events could add a dimension, a fact, a clarification." To Arledge, the news anchorman's function, "if there is a function, is not just to read a lead-in to a piece of film, but to provide reaction to a story, put it in perspective. Anchor people are concerned with peer acceptance. They find it degrading to educate people because they think they are talking to the intelligentsia. We had a good interview with Sadat, but nobody explained when he mentioned Gaddafi. Not only the slob on the street...
...frozen pond; when rescuers hauled him out 38 minutes later, his body was blue. He had no pulse, his breathing had stopped, and his eyes were fixed in a dilated, glassy stare. Cunningham, in fact, was declared dead from drowning. Then he belched. The involuntary reaction convinced rescuers that, despite all contrary evidence, they should try to revive him. A high-speed ambulance ride, two hours of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and 13 hours of breathing assistance later, Cunningham regained consciousness-and more. Far from being brain-damaged, he finished the semester at Jackson Community College with a 3.2 average...
Charles L. Mee's story about his own reaction to Nixon's resignation is a tale from a member of that older generation born just before World War II, and there is much more to his reaction than a shrugging off of the events of that day in the summer of 1974. In fact, except for a couple of short fantasy episodes, Nixon is rarely mentioned. His betrayal of the country is taken as a given, and the book revolves around Mee's efforts to deal with what he calls the death of the Republic, and the people who killed...
Congress will give the program the scrutiny its scope deserves. Carter says he hopes to get the jobs program passed "as soon as possible." But no part will be enacted before 1978, and the full program would not go into effect until 1981. Congressional reaction has been cautious, with a variety of quibbles. Al Ullman, House Ways and Means chairman, objects to putting the working poor on welfare because it could have a bad psychological effect. He also wants to base payments on income alone, not on the size of a family. Welfare families, he feels, should not be encouraged...
Risky Game. Reaction in Europe to the dollar's plunge was mixed. Furious West German bankers charged that when they refused to bend to U.S. pressure and revalue the mark, Blumenthal resorted to stealth to accomplish his ends. They said he deliberately provoked the dollar's slide; the U.S., rasped the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, was playing "a selfish, risky game that shows little responsibility toward the world economy." In Britain, the Bank of England responded to the dollar's decline by abandoning a policy of keeping the pound at a level of $1.72. Instead, the government...