Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After reading your Essay "Psychology of Murder" [April 24], I am forced to say that phrases like "Violence is as American as cherry pie" and "sick society"-mouthed and re-mouthed incessantly for shock effect-offend my passion for scientific accuracy...
Orwellian Horror. By last week, when the first two hostels were scheduled to open, the proposed living conditions had raised a storm of protest. Progressive Party M.P. Helen Suzman called the hostels an "Orwellian horror." White women, churchmen and students staged placard protests. Some of the shock felt by chic matrons over the city's "white by night" policy, as it is called, was undoubtedly at the prospect of having no servants to wait on candlelit dinner parties-but by no means all of it was. At a jampacked citizens' meeting, Anglican Bishop John Carter condemned the hostels...
...John Noran, Kenneth Train) carrying a stiff Eugenie Doyle, her arms stretched beyond her head, fingers spread. They tilt her up and she slides down the backs of the two men, down the closely following Thaddeus Bartter, to the floor where she lands gracefully: the earth has absorbed all shock and accepted her into its fallow ground...
...difficult to act in the face of such a situation. Yet as the shock of initial horror passes, we realize that somehow, some way, we must throw ourselves in the path of Nixon's plan for world destruction. Attending a rally this morning in the Yard and then marching to downtown Boston is a first step. Sending telegrams and letters to key Senators and representatives is another. Signing and circulating petitions is a third. Plans are coalescing for a mass action later this week in Washington: we should count on going to confront the monster in his lair...
Only during the past year has Segal begun to recover from the emotional shell-shock resulting from everyone's over-reaction--including his own. After all, his persona scholastica does include a Guggenheim Fellowship, nearly two dozen articles and reviews, a collection of essays on Euripides, Roman Laughter, the first study in English devoted entirely to Plautus--Rome's first comic playwright--as well as English translations of Plautine comedy. An extensive treatise on Terence, a kind of sequel to Roman Laughter, remains unfinished as Segal develops new insight from recent findings of the Greek playwright Menenader which may place...