Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduction to sex. They were cute men in suits, and they didn't look like your father." At hundreds of airports police erected barricades to protect the idols from those throbbing hearts; the Beatles staged daring escapes from their hotel rooms in refrigerated meat wagons. "I was in shock for five minutes," says a blonde girl wearing an over-sized "I Love Ringo" tee-shirt. Her eyes blur as she recalls her first sight of The Beatles: "Then it comes to you like total disbelief: These are them! You're seeing The Beatles, and they walk and breathe--the gods...
...train pass, and put them into my knapsack, which I placed a half-foot from my head. The wine had made my head heavy, and I was out like a light. Around 4:30 a.m. I awoke with a start and, after, shaking my head, I noticed with a shock that my knapsack was gone. I frantically began searching the area around me. Here I was in a totally strange country, without my wallet, my passport, my money--without even a pair of pants. And I didn't speak a word of Spanish...
Although Francisco Franco is 81 and in failing health, the announcement was a shock. He had entered a Madrid hospital for treatment of phlebitis* in his right leg. An hour later when workers poured into the streets for lunch, Franco's illness was the topic of conversation all across Spain...
What kind of shock such a book must be for the Russians who manage to read it is difficult to imagine. For some, Stalin is still a hero. To most, Lenin is close to a political saint. Westerners -courtesy of cold war propaganda, a free press and honest scholarship-regard both men with varying degrees of repugnance. Even to them, much of the cruelty and stupidity will seem dreadful enough. Solzhenitsyn produces moments that are unbearable, breaking through all defenses that the mid-20th century reader is likely to have raised against being afflicted by the pain of others...
HARVARD's affirmative action plan, a massive document that takes up five looseleaf binders, presumably conveys, like any book about Harvard would, a general impression of what the University is like. But the real Harvard would be something of a shock to someone who had come here expecting to experience the affirmative-action version, full of deans eager to hire more women and minority group members, elaborate, ultrademocratic salary scales, and not a hint of ingrownness or elitism. It's a pleasant world, this affirmative-action Harvard, but the plan as a description of the University doesn't ring very...