Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lover rather than a hater, a fairminded, trusting man and an indulgent father. Despite superficial pragmatism, he never quite cracks the code that relentlessly governs life around him: that the truth is always the opposite of what it appears to be. For Farragan every encounter ends in shock; every shock releases in the author an almost Dickensian, genial savagery...
...members of the University acquainted with the Greek regime, Harvard's willingness to entertain Sioris came as a bitter shock. The Francis Jones Professor of Greek Literature, Cedric H. Whitman, summed up the general feeling about Sioris: "He poses as an opponent of the regime, but it's impossible and ridiculous because he would not be in such a high post if he had something against them. He's a real minion of the colonels, and a hypocritical...
...Atlantic has been aptly described as a river; the earth as a contracting ball. Thus when a tribe of primitives suddenly surfaces in a magazine or a movie, it comes first as a shock and then as a consolation. The century is not quite so pervasive as it seemed; somewhere, time has stopped...
...financial and emotional shock waves started by the Rolls-Royce Ltd. bankruptcy two weeks ago are continuing to build in intensity. Last week there was considerable hindsight analysis of just how the calamity had happened -and a string of man-bites-dog oddities. The Guardian bannered a warning to foreigners: BETTER NOT BUY BRITISH. In Parliament, Socialists assailed the Conservative government for shabby treatment of a giant U.S. company, Lockheed Aircraft-a theme echoed on the placards of 1,000 Rolls workers who marched outside in one of the world's rare pro-American demonstrations. On the London Stock...
...Future Shock, Toffler...