Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read with some shock that the producers of the soap opera The Secret Storm [April 2] had consulted with the Archdiocese of New York. The fact is that no members of the Columbia Broadcasting System ever consulted with the archdiocese regarding "Father Mark Reddin's romantic life." We are not attempting to explain the problems of confused clerics through the medium of a soap opera...
...political career, when he used some questionable tactics. More important, the closeness of Nixon's first two presidential campaigns, against John Kennedy in 1960 and Hubert Humphrey in 1968, bred an almost paranoid insecurity among Nixon's campaign workers. The slim win over Humphrey was a special shock...
Tennis elbow is apparently set off by the repeated, jarring impact of the ball on the racket. The shock is transmitted to the arm, where it raises havoc-for reasons that doctors, despite long experience with tennis-elbow victims, still do not fully understand. Most of the pain seems to be caused by inflammation of the ligaments that join the two bones of the forearm-the radius and ulna-to the two spurs, or epicondyles, on the end of the humerus, or upper arm bone (see diagram...
...best cure for tennis elbow is prevention. He points out that weak forearm muscles, an improper grip or a tendency to hit the ball incorrectly can all contribute to tennis elbow. He recommends exercises to strengthen arm muscles and lessons that will improve stroking and serving, thus reducing shock to the arm. In support of his treatment, he notes that professionals seldom suffer from tennis elbow;* the ailment is endemic among once-a-week players and hackers...
...posturing of radical Women's Libbers and the increased respectability of homosexuality, is he saying that the domination of either sex by the other is obscene? In that case circa 1973, the subject is not startling enough to serve as underpinning for a satirical novel with intent to shock. As a corollary to the sex reversal, Berger describes extreme cultural and economic dilapidation. Is this merely the author's way of flushing the U.S. a few decades down the drain of the future, or is he questioning the competence of women-once in the saddle-to run things...