Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Culture Shock. Miami's Cuban community took in four families-31 refugees-who were housed in a nondescript motel in the city's Little Havana section. "It's only natural," says Sylvia Goudie, who fled Cuba in 1960. "If we, the Cubans, don't help them, who is going to do it?" In Loma Linda, Calif., the Seventh-day Adventist community sponsored en masse the 388 doctors, nurses and medical technicians from Saigon's Adventist Hospital...
Apart from all their other problems -finding work, worrying about family left behind-most of the Vietnamese newcomers were somewhat dazedly trying to master their culture shock. As one refugee at Fort Chaffee said: "Conditions are so strange here." Cao Huynh, a 23-year-old student, has just settled in lower Manhattan with six younger brothers and sisters. He is happy at the welcome he received. But he says wistfully: "Viet Nam is still Viet Nam. I still love that country, and I have to go back -if the Communists flee away...
Yale's Steve Sherrill, the Elis' fifth-rated player, carded an incredible 67 (including a 30 on the back nine, a course record) on the final 18 holes to shock everybody within five-iron distance of Hanover. Sherrill captured individual honors by one stroke over Dartmouth's Jerry Daly...
...highly constructed, finished sort of light, unrelated to nature. "My pictures need time to develop on the retina," says Riley. "The first contact is always a bit off-putting and abrasive. You have to go with it. It's like taking a cold shower: a shock at first, but then it feels good...
What lies on the other side of that shock is, in fact, an unusually generous display of pictorial intelligence...