The phrase "act radically" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need for significant or fundamental changes in behavior, approach, or thinking.
Example: "In order to address the climate crisis effectively, we must act radically and implement transformative policies."
Alternatives: "take drastic action" or "make fundamental changes".
This is particularly puzzling because Banks doesn't capture the mad and maddening atmosphere of the 60's, when it was easy to believe that to act radically was merely to be acting sensibly.
The government must think and act radically if it is to achieve its 50% target.
We live in an era of post-democracy which has removed many of the pressures on city governments world-wide to act radically.
The deep inequity and the arithmetic imply rich countries have a great responsibility to act radically themselves and to support developing countries' transitions to low-carbon growth and development paths.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was meant to remedy that, providing for highly-secretive judicial scrutiny of intelligence wiretaps.Last year's FISA Amendments Act radically loosened those restraints, effectively blessing the Bush administration's programme of warrantless wiretaps, with a thin veneer of court oversight thrown in for appearance's sake.
Radial bearings support loads that act radically and at right angles to the shaft centerline.
They acted radically, but largely by developing outdated policies from the 1980s and 1990s rather than responding more deeply to the dramatically changed circumstances of the global financial crisis of 2008.
"If these conditions are not fulfilled, even though this will be my first summit, I will have to act fairly radically," Ms Kopacz told reporters in Warsaw last weekend.The draft proposal EU leaders took up Thursday calls for greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced by 40% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.
In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act, which radically altered air travel in the United States.
But the other acts demonstrated radically different approaches.
In 1986, the I.B.M. researchers Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller discovered ceramics that acted as radically more practical superconductors.
