Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conference. The conference offers outsiders a chance to explore military life, and gives cadets a chance to find out what's happening in a world where "sir" and uniforms and salutes are not a part of everyday life. It's designed as a kind of mutual culture shock...
...This really caught me by surprise," St. Pierre said yesterday. "It was a real shock. But if the team had enough confidence in me to elect me, I'm confident that...
Cartmell isn't entirely old school. He dropped out of Fence Club, Yale's preppiest fraternity ("too artificial," he explained). The sparsely-filled bookshelves in his Pierson College room include Future Shock as well as Stever at Yale...
...Yale University community was in shock...
Give a Little. Before the party is revived, however, there will have to be some painful rearrangement. The Democrats are suffering from what might be called an aggravated case of future shock. The McGovernites had maneuvered the party into trying the "politics of tomorrow," and the future definitely did not work. Coalition, compromise politics had not been proved obsolete as many McGovernites once claimed; it turned out to be alive and well in the hands of Richard Nixon, who clasped to his bosom the very groups the McGovernites had antagonized: labor, white ethnics, the South. "Nixon would have been beaten...