Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Sadat called the "electric shock diplomacy" of Jerusalem was galvanic?and he moved swiftly to make sure that the good will created by his mission was not dissipated. Within three weeks, Israeli diplomats and journalists were flying into Cairo to attend?along with a U.S. delegate and a United Nations representative?a pre-Geneva conference that Sadat had convoked. Even though the two countries were still technically at war, the Israelis found themselves welcomed with astounding warmth and joy by Egyptians. Near Alexandria, the Defense Ministers of Egypt and Israel met to discuss military maps. Now Menachem Begin...
...around to reading it and that indeed the Frankfurter Allgemeine article had "actually enlightened me." Chancellor Helmut Schmidt also denied having known the extent of the Lutze case. With irrefutable if infuriating logic, his spokesman argued: "How could the Chancellor know more than Leber?" As the initial shock sunk in. the spy affair rapidly turned political. Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl demanded Leber's resignation and charged that Schmidt also "bears responsibility...
...Fukuda has other compelling reasons to push for faster domestic expansion rather than more exports. In the third quarter, Japanese production of goods and services, discounted for inflation, rose at an annual rate of only 4.4%. To a country used to much more rapid growth, that has been a shock. Japanese business firms are failing at the high rate of 1,500 a month, and unemployment, for all the vigor of the export industry, has edged up to 2.1% of the work force. In almost any other country, that would be considered low -but Japanese workers have been accustomed...
...natural difficulties in adapting to a highly modernized world far different from the primitive, less-frenetic world that man evolved in. "Just as the body cracks under the strain of environmental overstimulation, the mind and its decision processes behave erratically when overloaded," Toffler claims. In his book, Future Shock. Toffler goes...
Toffler is being quite pretentious. He has not only not worked as hard as Karl Marx, but he also made a fair amount of money from Future Shock (only a fraction of the size of Das Kapital) while Marx died in penury. But Toffler has some points. Why should society's malaise be confined to "alienation" the way Marx narrowly defined it? Toffler takes the broader view that the problem is more profound than simply the inability of man in modern society to objectify himself through his activity (or labor). Man, Toffler says, developed certain biological equipment long...