Word: shock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaullist shortcomings. Reduced by the Gaullist landslide to numerical insignificance in the National Assembly, the parties have turned inward on themselves instead of ganging up on the Gaullists. Split over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Communists are preoccupied by internal feuds. The Socialists, who are still in shock from their election drubbing, seem psychologically incapable of regaining their old fire. Declares Francois Mitterrand, president of the Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left: "The Federation is more a victim of itself than it was of the elections." Last week, seizing on a drastic remedy, the Socialists disbanded their present party...
...nonplaying captain of the U.S. team, Donald Dell, announced that Graebner would probably not be one of his starters. In front of the other U.S. players, Dell scolded: "You're a quitter, Clark. You haven't got the guts to get back onto this team." The shock therapy worked. Suddenly, Graebner's game improved. After he had trounced two of his teammates in practice rounds, Dell changed his mind and named him at the last moment to represent the U.S. in the opening match...
Goldmark's EVR may send similar shock waves through CBS. EVR families could, presumably, not bother to tune in the network at all and instead rely on their own library of TV tapes. CBS President Frank Stanton answers that EVR is an "additive" that will complement TV, just as record players complemented radio. Still, CBS has protected its profits with an intricate tangle of patents. An agreement made with the New York Times for creation of the first EVR educational films, for example, provides that CBS will share with the Times in both production and profits. Eventually...
...protagonist is Dr. John Marks, a fortyish general practitioner from Brooklyn, who becomes fascinated by psychotherapy while undergoing analysis. (A grandmother with a whip nearly gave him a castration complex.) Working in a state mental hospital and, later, at a psychiatric research center, Marks is disturbed to find shock treatments being rather callously applied with almost no recognition of the psychotic as a sensitive human being. To straighten things out, Marks sets himself up as a one-man's family - a substitute father and sometimes mother figure who talks to disturbed patients more or less like a loving Dutch...
...interesting enough to have historians and sociologists of science uncovering this dark aspect of one of our most noble professions. But when a distinguished scientist himself confesses his motives to the reading public, he is bound to shock...