Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...UMAS received a bigger shock when the three admission offices released the names of those it had admitted; Chicano names were conspicuously absent. Of the nearly 2000 acceptance letters that were sent out by Harvard and Radcliffe, only 14 were received by Chicanos and Chicanas. At GSAS only two Chicanos were admitted. At the College, with "special consideration" the Chicano had a one in nine chance of being admitted; without special consideration, an Anglo had a one in four-and-a-half chance of being admitted. The Chicanas fared better under special consideration at the 'Cliffe: her chances were...
...actually, I, like everyone else, did it for the money. That's how I found myself driving an oversized station wagon shuttling alumni and their families from the B-school to their dorms. "So you're a Harvard student?" they would ask, while I inwardly smiled at their shock of irrecognition...
...short order, India's shamefully ill-prepared troops were retreating at full tilt on both border fronts, the world's largest working democracy was paralyzed with shock and humiliation, and the Western world had new reason to fret about the Chinese menace. Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, the great apostle of nonviolence, thundered that Communist China had proved itself "a wholly irresponsible country that does not care about peace." In the White House, John Kennedy quickly agreed to New Delhi's urgent request for U.S. arms. Explained Phillips Talbot, Kennedy's Assistant Secretary of State...
NONFICTION 1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Brown (2) 2. The Sensuous Man, "M" (1) 3. The Greening of America, Reich (3) 4. Future Shock, Toffler (6) 5. Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Royko (7) 6. The Female Eunuch, Greer (5) 7. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, Tuchman(4) 8. The European Discovery of America:The Northern Voyages, Morison (9) 9. Myself Among Others, Gordon (10) 10. The Grandees, Birmingham...
...Future Shock, Toffler...