Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another of Senator Eagleton's peers, I was amazed at the attitudes and misgivings expressed by the shock patients [Aug. 14]. I can only doubt that these were fully recovered depression patients. I feel that TIME has done the Senator and the cause of mental health a great disservice by printing an article that allows such personal self-doubts to project themselves onto others. I am sure there are many successfully treated depression patients, like myself, who would voice complete confidence in Senator Eagleton. I request equal time...
...FUTURE SHOCK HAS COME to Harvard Square...
...Democratic fat cats who are now backing the Republican ticket. Last week one of the most serious defections occurred. Eugene Klein, chairman of the board of National General, an insurance and entertainment company based in Los Angeles, announced that he was supporting the President for reelection. His decision sent shock waves through the already demoralized Democratic Party, since Klein has considerable clout with other Jews. "I used to have trouble finding any supporters when I walked into the Hillcrest Country Club," says Taft Schreiber, executive vice president of show-biz conglomerate MCA and a major Nixon fund raiser...
...nobody talks about the end of the citizen. In Future Shock, Alvin Toffler writes about participatory democracy and the future of it, and yet everything in the new technology is antidemocratic. If you've got computers, you don't have to share information with the bureaucracy; you just give the elite access to instant information. All the information coming in from different sides-economic, political, religious, social-has one common thing and that is that it is antidemocratic, which is one reason why the kids keep talking about participation democracy. Because when something is about...
...TIME discovered that, ironically, one group that did not support the idea of Eagleton for Vice President was made up of other former victims of depression who themselves have received shock treatments (see BEHAVIOR...