Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This anomaly has come as a bitter shock. Americans have long thought that they had the resources to accomplish practically any goal that they set for themselves. Political liberals have argued for years that economic growth could pay for a vast improvement in housing, health care and education programs, and leave an ample margin for tax cuts besides. Only a few years ago, liberals and conservatives alike thought that the major question of public finance was how best to use the "peace dividend" of $30 billion a year that they expected the U.S. to collect once the Viet...
Each of the multiple shocks entails substantial, although immeasurable, psychic costs, even though those costs may not be visible. Especially when those changes touch people personally, as in the case of religion, morality and money matters, a sudden shift can be rudely disorienting. "The acceleration of change does not merely buffet industries or nations," contends Alvin Toffler in his bestselling Future Shock. "It is a concrete force that reaches deep into our personal lives, compels us to act out new roles, and confronts us with the danger of a new and powerfully upsetting psychological disease...
...week progressed TV's pundits gradually recovered enough from their initial excitement and culture shock to offer some sharp, personal comments. After the trip to the army base Cronkite noted that the tanks being destroyed in a training exercise were American and that the division, the 196th, had killed many Americans in Korea. The thought gave him, he said, "a chill up the spine." Eric Sevareid, after touring Peking University, noted that the intellectual level was that of a U.S. junior college. "Today," he said, "China is counter-revolutionary as regards the human mind...
Indies in August of 1883. The shock wave cracked walls 100 miles away and traveled three times round the world. Debris suspended in the air turned day into night over a radius of 130 miles. Floating pumice up to 13 feet blanketed...
Granted: there is some innovation in the film and some shock value. But the innovation is rather conventional (addition and deletion of scenes, effects of light and color, and so on), and the shock is neither scandalous nor exploitative. Certainly in the context of the past year, the violence in this Macbeth is hardly noteworthy. It is not that the film is without its visual extremism. One simply would have expected more from Polanski, Tynan, and Hefner, and one is thankful for less...