Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time when people have discovered with a sense of shock that the blacks who fill prisons (52% in Illinois) see themselves as "political victims" of a racist society. It is a time when many middle-class whites are forced to confront prisons for the first time, there to visit their own children, locked up for possession of pot or draft resistance. A time when many judges have finally begun to make personal ?and traumatic?inspections. After a single night at the Nevada State Prison, for example, 23 judges from all over the U.S. emerged "appalled at the homosexuality," shaken...
...three alleged kidnapers were arrested last week outside Montreal). It has had no leverage at all on Hanoi, which has rejected every U.S. proposal for an exchange of P.O.W.s, and continues to hold more than 300 Americans in its prison camps. Yet last week, in two cases that created shock waves throughout the world, opinion had at least a staying effect on regimes that were poised to inflict cruel punishments as warnings to dissidents within their borders...
Most Western Communist parties also registered shock. L'Unitd, official newspaper for Italy's 1,500,000-member party, headlined its editorial AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE VERDICT. The French Communist Party organ, L'Humanite, wondered "how a trial of such importance could take place virtually in secret," and "how an unsuccessful attempt could be sanctioned by capital punishment." The death sentences were the first that any nation ever meted out for attempted hijacking...
Shunning the Dark. The announcement was made by Hungarian-born Neurochemist Georges Ungar, 64, who has spent years experimenting with memory transfer. In his most notable experiment (TIME, April 19, 1968), he jolted rats and mice with an electrical shock whenever they strayed into a blacked-out box, eventually conditioning them to fear the dark. Then, after decapitating his fear-trained animals, he injected a broth made out of their brain tissue into the abdominal cavities of normal mice, which ordinarily prefer the dark. More often than not, he found, the injected rodents-contrary to their nature-also began...
...stereotypical Joan Crawford flick ("Let me alone, Paul, I'm a lost crusade") would be to drown in a sea of sorghum, to turn off the young, the middle-aged and the old. To generations brought up on television, every plot is known; to a sexually liberated society, every shock has been felt or consciously bypassed...