Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrival of "Future Shock...
...Future Shock, Toffler...
...unfairly tar all the needy, but the reality of poverty in the U.S. is not what myth would have it. A majority of the welfare recipients in the country are white (58%), and thousands of them?many from high-paying jobs, especially in engineering?are now discovering the shock of poverty for the first time. Forty-two percent are nonwhite, more than three times their proportion of the population?testimony to the dislocation and discrimination in American society. Hundreds of thousands of blacks left the Deep South in the two decades following World War II. But a number of studies...
...redesigned the Venera spacecraft to withstand pressures of 150 earth atmospheres and temperatures in excess of 1000° F. They also redesigned their parachute (probably made of steel mesh) to enable Venera to descend more rapidly to the surface. To allow for the higher landing velocity, they incorporated a shock-absorbing landing gear...
Maurice Béjart and his Brussels-based Ballet of the 20th Century, at Brooklyn's Academy of Music, were trying to demonstrate why European audiences regard them as the most avant of the avantgarde. At 43, Béjart is famous for dealing in shock effects, trying to interest the young and preaching that dance is mass ritual best staged in, say, Yankee Stadium. Other Béjart proclivities include a fondness for propaganda and a belief that the union of male and female, explicitly demonstrated, is a major balletic theme. For music he mixes Wagner with Indian...