Word: shock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victim's chest-even though the heart was still beating. One hour and 25 minutes later, the heart stopped, and two surgical teams went to work. Temporarily kept warm by artificially circulated blood, then quickly sutured into place, the new heart began beating immediately without the usual electrical shock. "Silence," said Zerbini, as a murmur of astonishment swept the room, and he proceeded to sew up his patient's chest...
...deeply preoccupied with politics and with social ferment at home. Yet the events in France, with the sudden tottering of that tall, human statue, brought a sense of shock and unease. Admittedly, Charles de Gaulle has done his best to harass and embarrass the U.S. in the world. Yet no French leader of this century could have risen to the time as he did. He was a hero because he seemed to outstare history, reversing trends and forces that had seemed irrevocable. In the decade since the general swept into power, France has been transformed from the sick...
...shadow. Before King was slain, there was strong rivalry at the second-echelon level of the S.C.L.C. The shock of his death brought the new leaders together, but the organization may fall into disarray. There are no obvious, immediate challengers to Abernathy. S.C.L.C.'s executive vice president, the Rev. Andrew Young, is more nearly on King's intellectual level than is Abernathy, but he is light-skinned and strikes some Negroes as too remote. Another aide, the Rev. Bernard Lee, is so outspokenly hostile to whites that his accession might dry up S.C.L.C.'s funds...
...Shock & Excitement. Sprinkled throughout the publications are first, tentative works that show a glimmer of the authors' future power. Double Dealer, published in the 1920s in New Orleans, contains the early poems, stories and criticism of William Faulkner. His gothic eloquence is much in evidence, as is a penchant for backward-running sentences that caught on with other young experimental writers as well. One of his characters, a priest, rhapsodizes...
Somehow, reading the works in their original setting recaptures some of the shock and excitement they must have given their first readers. Despite all the plays and movies derived from D. H. Lawrence and the countless exegeses, an early short story, The Woman Who Rode Away, emerges fresh and startling in a 1925 issue of the Dial. The proper American woman living in Mexico with a dreary husband goes off to the hills in search of fulfillment. Instead, she is imprisoned by Indians of such "terrible, glittering purity" that they ignore her womanhood and sacrifice her to their gods...