Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then I went back on medication. I don't really like it. I used to be able to joke and laugh, but it slows down my reaction to things. And it killed my appetite, so I don't usually eat at lunch. I go off somewhere by myself rather than sitting at lunch not eating and looking strange...
...distorts the human form is funny. But giants are rarely funny. When they are not menacing, they are pitiable. People do not like bigness, even when they are impressed by it. There are sound reasons for fearing the recent megamergers of corporations, but there is also the irrational reaction that we do not like the idea of anything that makes puny our control, our self-regard, our size. Thus the insults "Big man! Big shot!" Thus the derisive "Big deal!" Thus Wilt...
...imagine the reaction if the following icons were going to be exhibited in a New York City museum: an image of Martin Luther King Jr. smeared with dung, an image of Muhammad or of the Star of David befouled with dung? KEN KELLER Pewee Valley...
...himself against the hypocrisy charge--"Who is corrupted by this system? All of us are corrupted," he told his colleagues--and he admitted being a member of Hotheads Anonymous. But these days, he insists, "I just keep smiling. I don't want people to think they can get a reaction...