Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Future Shock. As an added incentive, says O'Neill, the early colonies could be devoted to space manufacturing -for example, the construction of large turbogenerators driven by sunlight. Much easier to build in the gravity-free environment around the colonies, these giant machines could be towed back to the vicinity of the earth, parked in fixed orbit and then used to relay the captured solar power down to earth as a beam of microwaves...
...shock to my Western values," Woodside recalls. "I was forced to confront a totally different civilization for the first time, and I found it very stimulating." He found some encouragement to study China in the Cold War tensions between China and the United States that also affected relations between China and his native Canada. But mostly, he was drawn to Asian studies by scholarly exhilaration with the unknown. "It's very exciting to be thoroughly interested in a subject and have it dominate your thoughts and concerns all the time," he says. "It is one of the best things that...
Some of the Asian nations he cited nonetheless have valid reasons for fearing that the Communist victories have created not just ripples but potential shock waves. Laos is already feeling the impact (see story page 28); Korea could be next, in the opinion of many South Koreans. "It is obvious that the Communists will attempt to create another Indochina situation in the Korean peninsula," noted a resolution adopted last week by the [South] Korean Newspaper Association. North Korean Dictator Kim II Sung has done nothing to alleviate the South's fears; in Peking last month he warned that...
...summer awaiting final word. He tried to pass the time fishing, a sport he still loves, but inwardly he agonized. "It would have been shattering if I had not been accepted. Already I was living the life of the Kirov. Seeing Leningrad and the school was like an electrifying shock. I could not imagine living apart from it." Not knowing how to work out alone, he did his best to "prepare myself morally" for the work that he hoped he would soon be doing. He is a trifle vague as to what this means, but ventures: "There comes a moment...
...later the Saturday Evening Post) legitimately took him away from home, freeing him briefly from his continuing responsibility. Suzanne admits that she once considered suicide and writes: "A person living with hemophilia can become paralyzed with fright, like a rat in a maze who has met with an electric shock at every innocent-looking exit until finally he simply turns frantically in circles, afraid to try any more doors...