Word: shock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor or an administrator, a businessman or a craftsman--to be humane is not a virtue restricted to any segment of men. There are more great professors here than at most schools; but supremely great human beings are not numerous here, or anywhere. Mr. Alexander, then, does well to shock the newcomers out of expecting this to be a sacred place, untainted by the shortcomings of the world; but I don't know whether he has convinced himself...
...Shock of Chicago...
...yanked him from school and sent him to work in a ratty London warehouse where blacking paste was made. His ordeal lasted only a few months, then he returned to school. But, as Wilfrid Sheed notes in a preface to this brace of new fiction pieces, a sense of shock and abandonment stayed with Dickens the rest of his life. He could not even bring himself to mention the episode until 25 years later, when he wrote bitterly of "the sense I had of being utterly neglected and hopeless...
...Beatles do it again and it is only left to affirm, in spite of the shock of distrust introduced into the relationship by the slap in "Revolution", that I, and you, still love and respect the Beatles...
...Mclntire keeps his room rates modest (as low as $11 a day single) and his guests sober (neither hotel has a bar). His takeover in Cape May has provided a permanent headquarters for his religious movement, which he calls the Twentieth Century Reformation. A jowly six-footer with a shock of wavy hair greying at the temples and an impressive Roman nose, Mclntire oozes the polished grace of a successful businessman. On the stump, he is the consummate piney woods evangelist, his voice resonant with Southern overtones even though he was born in Ypsilanti, Mich...