Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprisingly, the passage of nearly a century has robbed Ghosts of its shock effect; it has also clarified our vision of the play. Obvious now is the fact that syphilis was Ibsen's symbol rather than his subject. The disease stands for all that is twisted and stunted when life is held in thrall by narrow, provincial social conventions. People in such a society, Ibsen shows us, are not so much a prey to quiet desperation as to desperate hypocrisy...
...many a first offender, the worst part of prison comes in those shocking first days behind bars. Stunned by the strip search on entering, the frightening, unfamiliar vastness of the prison and the long incarceration stretching ahead, the new inmate is overwhelmed. On the theory that the first taste of prison may have at least as much curative effect as the full dose, a few states, including Indiana and Ohio, have quietly been practicing what they call "shock probation...
...Kentucky prisoners have been released on shock probation. Of them, only three have been returned to prison. One Viet Nam veteran who faced a year for selling amphetamines got out after two months and claims, "There is no chance I'll ever be in trou ble again." A 19-year-old sentenced to ten years for selling heroin was surprised by "how good they all were to me - the judge, the public defender, every one." Says his mother: "We thought we had lost him completely...
Those preliminary results parallel the experience of Ohio, the first state to try the shock-probation process. There, 4,014 prisoners have been released after serving only two or three months since the plan went into effect in 1966. Only 9% of them have had to go back to jail while the national recidivism rate is estimated as from...
...shock to see black women who had graduated as far back as 1929, for example, returning to Radcliffe for the first time," June Cross '75 said yesterday...