Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambiguities and shock of the Viet Nam impasse have led some in Washington to speculate that the extraordinary Kissinger-Nixon relationship was in some trouble. The question was beguiling but difficult to answer, for the two have constructed a working arrangement that is unique...
Pamela seems expressly designed as the moral contrast to Wendell, the executive type immersed in future shock. But her liberal innocence makes her character nearly as jejune as his. Predictably, the two repeat the lives of their parents, falling in love--being forced into love, in fact, by a succession of coincidences including murder, body, snatching, and their inexplicable desire to please the hotel staff, who had adored old Kate and Willy with their charming resort romance...
...succession is plainly and sadly inadequate to cope with the stresses of future shock, political, social and economic (see box). In many ways, Spain is belatedly catching up with its neighbors. Only a generation ago, Spanish girls were not allowed out without duennas; today they roam alone in miniskirts on the street and bikinis on the beach. Some working-class families, for the first time have telephones, refrigerators and TVs, and every sizable city has a traffic jam. Spaniards, in short, are changing far more quickly and easily than their institutions, which are showing increasing strains. Items...
...eighth-grader in West Babylon, N.Y., has been an avid builder of model rockets and airplanes since he was eight years old. When the price of his favorite enamel went from 15? to 19? a bottle, he realized that his $2-a-week allowance would not absorb the shock. So he sent a complaint to the Price Commission, charging that the Tester Corp. of Rockford, Ill., had raised the list price of its "Pla Enamel" well over 25%. "This is only $.04," he wrote, "but being only 12¾ years old, this is a big strain on my allowance. Thank...
...still recovering from the shock of reading the editorial by James Muller in this morning's paper (Dec. 5). After two and one half years of more-or-less regular Crimson reading. I had given up hope of ever reading a thoughtful, intelligent editorial. My sorrow at seeing such a record of consistent performance marred is more than balanced by my delight in reading Mr. Muller's piece. He is to be congratulated, both for his thinking and his courage to express himself. But tell me, who slipped up and let someone so wise get on the Crimson staff...