Word: responded
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With such men, Hubbard believes, the threat of force is actually "counterproductive." In fact, the skyjacker seems to respond to greater force with increasingly violent tactics of his own. A good example, says Hubbard, is the sky-marshal program. "Before marshals arrived on the scene, skyjackers were arming themselves with pistols. When the Government escalated, so did the hijackers; now they use a pistol and a bomb." To make things worse, the Government has virtually abandoned the marshal program, yet has made only a low-key-and little noticed-announcement to that effect. As a result, skyjackers have not reduced...
...OTHER FIGURE shows a similar development, and character transformation under the impact of events is not really the major concern of the play. Rather archetypes respond to crisis in a straightforward fashion. Caroline Downey, as the mayor's wife, Anna Andreevna, and Lee Cork as his daughter, Maria Antonovna, act in conventional, highly stylized and artificial unison, play off of each other very nicely, and are a high point in the evening. Yet, they are static, and in the end differ in no particular way from their status at the beginning. Similarly, the mayor, portrayed by Wayne Mitchell, remains unchanged...
This is not to contradict those analyses of University politics which condemn the Administration for its paternalistic bureaucratic rule. Faculty and Administration must respond to pressure and grant students an equal voice in determining the character of Harvard and Radcliffe life. Were the source of this pressure a viable undergraduate organization, the Faculty might accept University democracy more readily. Without such a union, change will come only slowly, fostered in crises when an atmosphere of stress must inevitably obstruct the most foresighted planning and constructive negotiation...
...Perhaps your view of the public's failure to respond with indignation to scandalous disclosures is tinted by prejudice. Perhaps the American public has become weary and wary of the self-righteousness of the American press. WILFRED WEISS Middletown...
Gerald was defending against a B.U. last break and seemed to have the situation well under control. Zurchow came out of the goal and called for the ball. Unfortunately, he wasn't expecting Gerald to respond so quickly, and the ball blew by him into the goal unassisted by anyone on the Terrier offense...