Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those poor Rousseauian slobs who made their pitiful bargain surrendering essential freedoms for the Social Security benefits of their Social Contract. Are these despicable men cousins of the NRA and Birchers, neo-Nazis ready to tromp on the right of the rest of the highway passengers to avoid the shock of a Traveco Mobile Home with mad dog Joe Frasson at the wheel rattling by their VW at 110 mph? Or are they sportsmen and liberators, by their brave example, putting their drivers licenses on the line, trying to get us all out of the prisons we are in? Rousseau...
...watch it in graphic detail. Later we learn that despite their foreign ways they are gentle people--just different--and that they have free love inside the igloos, also moderately graphic. The dinner is supposed to disgust you; the sex is supposed to titillate you: you move from shock to shock...
...confusion that are new even to this war. Gradually the city realized that it might not be safe after all, that the war was going much worse than anyone had feared. The news of the fall of Hue, which everybody expected the government to defend, came as a severe shock. Equally frightening, the dusty buses pathetically crowded with refugees were no longer coming in only from the northern provinces; they were arriving from the south as well, bringing with them the terrible news that the escape route down the coast was cut. Danang was sealed off. There...
...Shock Effect. Last week the House Budget Committee estimated $72 billion, but the Office of Management and Budget calculated that if Congress passes every proposal now before it, the figure would grow to $100 billion or more. If that report was meant to shock Congress, it had the desired effect. The next day Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, warned his fellow Senators that "Congress is going to have to exercise great restraint to avoid overshooting the mark as we try to get our economy moving again...
...impressed by the film that on a later trip to Moscow he glowingly described it to his counterparts in the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Recalls Handler: "That an American film should portray a Soviet cosmonaut as the hero who saves American lives came to the Russians as a distinct shock...