Word: shock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Harold Painter's wife died in an automobile accident in 1962, he sent his son Mark to live temporarily with the boy's maternal grandparents. When Painter remarried, two years later, he sought to get Mark back. To his surprise, the grandparents refused. To his shock the Iowa Supreme Court agreed that Mark should not live with his father. Writer-Photographer Painter, said the court, is "either an agnostic or an atheist and has no concern for formal religious training." Life with him "would be unstable, unconventional, arty, bohemian." The boy should remain in the custody...
...course. Some of the shock feeling is caused by a kind of historical provincialism: one often tends to feel that one's own time, one's particular moment, is the worst, the most significant ever. Historians are cooler about it. With cosmic detachment, they insist that the only crucial years are those providing great turning points in human affairs. For all its banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century...
...convinced the cast that their stage kisses had been too tame. The uniformly black-haired actors wanted to wear wigs of different colors to make them look more like Americans, but Clurman vetoed the wiggy look. Only Noboru Na-kaya, in the central role of Hickey, was given a shock of red hair...
...comes as a shock that Coz zens, in his first novel since By Love Possessed (TIME cover, Sept. 2, 1957), has attempted to write a severe anti-novel. Not surprisingly, the result is less than successful. Henry Worthington is like most Cozzens heroes. Society judges him a winner, but on the basis of his own secretly harbored prima facie evidence he wonders if he just might not be a loser after all. A successful management consultant of "sixty odd," Worthington decides with metaphorical directness to examine the management -and meaning-of his own life. His method, however, is indirect...
...Shock Absorber...