Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exceedingly complex and sudden occurrence taking less than ten seconds." For one thing, witnesses overestimate time and distance according to how endangered they feel. They disagree on how fast the same car was going by as much as 25% . Perception also varies with physical condition: menstruating women, for example, react slowly, while older persons have less facility for perception of speed and depth. Interpretive judgments may vary with each individual's "age, race, nationality, sex, profession, religion-all his lifetime experience." Most people hear only what they want to hear. To an insecure professor, for example, the overheard phrase...
...shrewd half truths of colonial times, firmly established a belief in the impenetrable differentness of Asia. The situation was not helped by the fact that Asia itself had produced strikingly little written history. Today growing numbers of Americans have firsthand knowledge of how Asians think and feel, act and react -even though such knowledge is always beset by the danger of oversimplification. Diplomats, soldiers, businessmen, journalists, teachers and technicians constantly contribute to the growing body of "typical" Asian experiences...
...Jungle. "The game in the jungle," says the Big Red One's commanding officer, Major General William E. Depuy, "is to send in a small force as bait, let the enemy attack, and be able to react with a larger force in reserve near by. But if the enemy doesn't want to fight, then the jungle goes off in 360 directions. There just aren't enough landing zones in the jungle to corner Susie in the roundhouse...
...consciously try to justify the war. But because the film does not treat the war as one made by men, for real and imagined reasons, with real and terrifying effects, it misses the most important and neglected events which are happening in Vietnam. The film allows the audience to react to the torture and the blood with abstract shock, as it might to a primitive ritual, and thereby encourages the illusion that we are not really in Vietnam, and that the suffering is very far away...
...strengthen Harvard's first doubles, Barnaby has teamed Gonzalez with Brian Davis, a powerful off-hand player with sharp volleys and lightning reflexes. Barnaby has tried this combination twice in team matches, but they may not have played together long enough to react in co-ordination like the Yale or Dartmouth pairs. Adelsberg and Kileff -- the slugger and the runner -- form Harvard's incongruous second doubles team...