Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business of producing and packaging music. Cipolla says she has always lived partly in a fantasy world, half-believing in witches and the power of magic as well as that of science and technology. In the last few years, she says, she has had to deal with "the shock of touching down on earth for a while...
When the indgenous delegates documented the persistent ethnocide of the governments of the Western Hemisphere, we were initially met with shock, which quickly turned to rage. The Non-Governmental Organization participants joined in solidarity with our struggles and goals as well as in condemnation of the policies of the Western Hemisphere countries. The world must no longer listen to Jimmy Carter's oratories on the importance of human rights, when in fact he governs the nation that has been most successful in human rights abuse. South American governments follow the North American lead; documents show their concern for human rights...
...were almost too stunned to protest. On the day of the government's move, cordons of security forces sealed off Soweto before any demonstrations could get under way. More than 150 blacks and Indians-and a handful of white sympathizers-were arrested in protests that followed the first shock. As TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter reports: "There was little joy in Pretoria. Even among Afrikaners, the mood was one of apprehension and depression...
...Senate reacted to its own, as well as to the nation's, sense of shock; that year, George McGovern introduced S. Res. 281 to create a Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. On July 30, 1968, the resolution was brought to the Senate floor by Sen. Joseph Clark (D.-Pa.) from the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare with the committee's recommendation in favor of creating the Select Committee. The resolution passed by voice vote...
...book as a brash, precocious adolescent, he develops and matures throughout the course of the novel, whereas Portnoy's Complaint is the story of retarded adolescence. The explicitness and concern with sexual identity remain in The Professor of Desire but Roth is less intent on trying to shock the reader through blatant exhibitionism. In Portnoy's complaint, Portnoy was a rebel who shamelessly flouted the conventions and laws of his world. He was a heretic whereas David is a devotee who, in his own words, approaches sex as if it were "sacred ground." In fact, what Roth seems...