Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cycle. By the time they reach Bozeman, Mont., where Pirsig once taught college English, it is apparent that his ideas have been earned at considerable cost and suffering. He reveals some frightening facts about himself. In 1961 he suffered a mental breakdown and underwent a series of shock treatments, which wiped out many of his personal memories. To give his philosophical inquiries a dramatic edge, Pirsig refers to his shadowy pretreatment self as Phaedrus, the name of one of Socrates' straight men from Plato's Dialogues...
...final team standings, Penn finished a surprising third behind NYU and Wayne State. The Quakers' performance in the NCAAs was a shock to most observers, since Penn had not done well in either the Easterns or the Ivy title race. "They are not great fencers," Marion said, "but they surprised everyone...
...Wonder performed as the opening act in the record-shattering coast-to-coast tour by the Rolling Stones. For the first time, he was exposed to a massive white audience. That helped launch him as a monster star. But the Stones and their life-style came as a shock. By rock standards, Stevie is square. He does not drink; he has smoked pot only twice, and "it scared me to death...
...pesky pickpocket in the U.S. Rising prices filched a few pennies at a time from wages and profits and prompted endless grousing, but for a majority of Americans, caused no real hardship; incomes usually went up faster. So, nothing in recent history has prepared the nation for the shock of what is happening today: a double-digit inflation that raises unsettling visions among many Americans of the price spirals in South America or Indonesia...
...pursuit continues in Passages About Earth. From ample but largely gloomy evidence of rapid social change - future shock, ecological disruption, population explosion, proliferation of information - Thompson draws a startling conclusion: "We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution." Man, he asserts, will now either slide back into a new Dark Age or evolve into a higher, more spiritual being...