Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems of cultural shock are more likely. Revived and cured patients will find themselves unemployable, without friends--a museum piece from an ancient century. Clearly, there are several things to be considered before the headlong pursuit of immortality is begun in this direction...
...seminars for both male and female officers. These days, she says, New York police who interview rape victims are now selected with an eye to their emotional sensitivity. But, acknowledges the detective bureau's Deputy Inspector Terrence McKeon, "You have to be a woman to understand the shock a rape victim has experienced...
Indeed, the need being so obvious and the city's tawdriness such a familiar symbol of the nation's urban mess, each Saran-wrapped view of it is likely to jar audiences with a shock of nonrecognition. Where has Greene hidden the psychologically bombed civilian population? Where have all the smog, graffiti and litter gone...
...dresses up one day as an 11th century German emperor and on the way to a masquerade is thrown from his horse, bonks his head, and for 20 years thereafter assumes the identity of the character he was impersonating. As the play opens, his friends hope to shock him back to sanity...
That a Harvard Paper should bother to print up such a spate of letters, however, comes as a great shock...