Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phoenix Theater, begins as a mini-reunion in a restaurant. Five Mount Holyoke College graduates (the "uncommon" ones) have got together six years later for one of those treacherous show-and-tell sessions. In flashback, the women return to their senior year. The college feels tremors of future culture shock, the expanding, unnerving world of women's goals and options...
...with victims of accidents or other tragedies, or with their relatives: "Avoid them." Exception: "When they throw light on what happened or drive home a point which might help avoid future tragedies ... Do not interview, or attempt to interview, a person who appears to be in a state of shock." (The CBS code does not point a finger at anyone else, but one of the most shameless recent TV exploitations of distraught relatives was Geraldo Rivera's ABC interviews in the Son of Sam murders...
...Hackett was not the only Yard resident to shock the Midshipmen and delight the excited IAB crowd. After Harvard's Medley Relay, with two very quick splits from first-year men Tuomo Korola and Julian Mack, had opened the meet by finishing more than four seconds ahead of their counterparts from Annapolis, freshman Englishman Mike Coglin led to a 1-2 sweep of the 1000-yd. freestyle, to give the Crimson a 15-1 advantage...
...world is in the throes of its third great socioeconomic revolution, and if we want to adapt and survive, we need to realize this, Alvin Toffler, the author of "Future Shock," told a group of 100 people at Kirkland House Saturday afternoon...
...Carter is a perfect example of the Twiggy phenomenon I described in "Future Shock." His sudden rise to power typifies the acceleration and oscillation in modern society which has resulted from new technological advances, particularly in communication," he said...