Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick's vision of future shock, Cinema 57, 200 Stuart St., Boston...
...After St. Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus 438 years ago, his Jesuits became the clerical shock troops of the Counter Reformation, the loyal defenders of the papacy. Many members of the order still make a special vow of fidelity to the Pontiff. Lately, however, some of the most outspoken attacks on Pope Paul VI from within the church have come from Jesuits-attacks that their superior general now wants stopped. In a letter to the world's 31,860 Jesuits, made public last week, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe reminded them of their obligation to foster...
Given these widespread views, it must come as a shock for many to learn that support for America's bellicose Vietnam policy is least significant precisely in those socio-economic sectors where tolerance and good will are ostensibly at a minimum. Yet this is the conclusion reached time and time again in poll studies. In June 1966 Gallup Poll found that 41 per cent of those with just a grade-school education favored immediate withdrawal from Vietnam as compared with only 27 per cent of those with a college education; in September of 1970, the figures were 61 per cent...
...half hours including intermission). The oppression of the peasants, the "Red Sunday" massacre of 1905 and the manuverings of the Communist leaders appear almost as footnotes to the life of Nicholas and Alexandra. And the movie succumbs to the temptation of introducing famous figures just for the shock appeal; we hardly see Joseph Stalin at all after he boyishly introduces himself to Lenin's wife at a Party meeting...
...Clockwork Orange. Stanley Kubrick's vision of future shock, Cinema 57, 200 Stuart St., Boston...