Word: shock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Romney it was the final indignity: never in his lurching pursuit of the presidential nomination had he created the impact wrought in the five minutes he took to end the quest. Seldom, in fact, has any political announcement detonated such shock waves or so rapidly reversed the positions of two men-in this case, Romney and Nelson Rockefeller. But the result for the Republican Party last week was clarification rather than confusion. Now, at last, the G.O.P. can focus on a choice between its two strongest alternatives: New Yorkers Rockefeller and Richard Nixon...
Several students interviewed said they were not as disturbed as most of the patients at McClean, and all but one of them stayed there less than a year. Arriving at the hospital was a shock for some. "I couldn't believe that I was actually in a mental institution," one boy said. "It was as if you had been slumming and suddenly found yourself living in a tenement...
Merrett attributed Deerfield's weak performances to "shell shock." "They were overwhelmed at the Eastern High School and Prep School Championships last week and still have not recovered," he said...
Perhaps the most interesting fact about this limpid novel is that the author is Ginger Rogers' current husband. "The sordid realism of this book," he warns leeringly in the foreword, "may generate a feeling of shock." Promises, promises...
...Godard's rare best, that nonchalant imperviousness to precedent can provide the viewer with a shock of delight. There are sequences in his films that no other director would have dared to try, or could have brought off half so well: Alphaville's portrayal of the future as nightmare, achieved through location-shooting in present-day Paris; the bittersweet evocations of prewar Hollywood musicals in A Woman Is a Woman; the female mood of sensual boredom in The Married Woman...