Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marriage with a termagant hypochondriac (Clarice Blackburn), he falls in love with her winsome young cousin (Julie Harris). In the end, the lovers decide on suicide-downhill on a toboggan, crashing into a thick-trunked elm. Viewers who had not read Ethan Frome then got one of the most abrupt shocks ever delivered by television: Julie Harris, seen years later as a survivor of the wreck, her voice shrill, her disintegrated mind making her more shrewish than the wife ever was, and her unweathered face a makeup man's achievement of scarred disfiguration...
...immediately. Said A. Moyer Kulp, vice president of the Wellington Fund, second biggest U.S. mutual fund: "The market has been too impatient. Men's minds just got things soaring too soon." Seldom in Wall Street's history had the turnabout from giddy optimism to pessimism been so abrupt...