Word: shock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winning an Argument. The shock of the Socialist-Communist pact was aug mented by surprise. Since last spring, when left-wing Socialist Pietro Nenni and Communist leader Palmiro ("Hercules") Togliatti put their heads together in a vain attempt at merger, the political tides in Italy and the rest of Europe had been running against the Communists. Embarrassed by Russia's insistence that Italy must give up Trieste, Togliatti had received the indignant resignations of 8,000 Roman Communists in a single day. The Socialists had appointed Sandro Pertini to conduct their negotiations with the Reds, and since Pertini...
...Madison, making his second appearance on the silver screen in "Till the End of Time," makes great use of the same three qualities that have already endeared him to the bobbysox brigade: a great shock of blond hair, a habit of grinning upward from beneath the shock, and his sensible decision not to complicate his art with the unmanly, finer points of acting. Dorothy McGuire, who is east as Pat, Guy's galfriend, although female and fetching, apparently can't get used to the thought of not being Clandia and has trouble groping her misty-eyed way through this picture...
...soda ash, glass makers have been forced to cut down drastically; for want of glass bottles, dairies in New York and elsewhere have been forced to cut down on deliveries of milk, which is somewhat short for want of cows. For want of castor oil, used as brake and shock absorber fluid, automakers could not roll out all the cars they had hoped to deliver. For want of nails to make curing racks. Georgia farmers this year were threatened with the loss of half of their $57,000,000 peanut crop...
...much good the seminars would do, if any, nobody knew. But last week Founder Brown warned the maiden class that journalism somehow must jack itself up above the level of novelty, shock and violence. "Unless we brilliantly improve our skills and techniques," he said, "we face ... a crisis of meaninglessness. Innumerable brief reports, presented without perspective or background, can only drive the reader into a mental fog. . . . We must lift our sights...
...acknowledged disorder. The Fall of Valor, Jackson's second book, is a study in the revelation of disorder. The story follows a conventionally successful man, John Grandin, through the crucial weeks of his life, when his long-growing sense that something is wrong gives way to the shock of realizing that he is a homosexual...