Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engines. Rolls-Royce is building the engines for Lockheed's TriStar and has already received $113 million in British government aid toward the power plant. That amount did not match the engineering costs, which are running twice as high as estimates made two years ago. Amid gasps of shock in the House of Commons last week, the Tory government announced that it would have to put up another $101 million...
...Buddha himself; Truth was and continues to be transmitted from mind to mind. In Zen, says the catalogue, "Enlightenment was a dramatic, sudden event that came unannounced," and not gradually through study. As a result of this belief, there is the constant effort of the teachers (Zen masters) to "shock and shake their pupils into realization of the Truth." This effort is reflected in the masters' eccentric questions, paradoxical retorts, and bizarre tricks, all of which are potential parts of the ethos of unusual circumstance under which the student often achieved Enlightenment...
...offer to play Hamlet with the excellent Birmingham Repertory Theater. Recalls Chamberlain: "I felt pride, amazement, disbelief, terror." He was the first American to dare Hamlet in Britain since John Barrymore, and, premiere night, a full cry of London critics rode to Birmingham for the kill -and for a shock. Wrote the Times critic the next morning: "Anyone who comes to this production prepared to scoff at the sight of a popular American television actor playing Hamlet will be in for a deep disappointment...
Enter Major Doryan (Christopher Jones), newly shipped from the German front with a gimpy leg and a bad case of shell shock. Doryan and Rosy fall into each other's arms the first time an imaginary artillery shell goes off in his mind. But of course all English-Irish love matches are star-crossed. Turns out that Rosy's publican father (Leo McKern) is the local informer for the British. Father surreptitiously blows the whistle on as grand a gang of Republican gunrunners as ever stepped out of the Abbey Theatre...
...Future Shock, Toffler...