Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...background and style, Vance and Lance (reporters who had impatiently awaited the announcement cracked that the pair sounded like a vaudeville team) seemed to fit the emerging Administration's needs. They symbolized experience, directness, a concern for efficiency, but-so far at least-nothing to undermine confidence or shock conservatives...
...imagine a detached, calm description of the ship going up in flames: "I do believe there will be no survivors." We have become desensitized to things that are usually part of the human condition. This is the basic problem of television. We've lost our sense of shock, our sense of humanity...
Male Dominance. Wilson, a Harvard zoologist, may not yet have achieved the stature of a Darwin, a Marx or a Freud. But he and his colleagues are sending the same kind of shock waves through the academic community. Sociobiology is the study of the biological basis for social behavior in every species; its practitioners believe that some-and perhaps much-of human behavior is genetically determined. It is not a message that many academics want to hear. Says Harvard's Richard Lewontin, an evolutionary biologist: "This is fundamentally a very conservative world view, which serves the very important function...
...second season at 135th St. and Broadway after starring at CCNY in the late '40's. In 1950, City was the collegiate kingpin, winning both the NCAA and the NIT crowns. But Layne and his teammates were later implicated in a major point-shaving scandal. The subsequent investigation sent shock waves through college basketball, and Layne eventually pleaded guilty to the charges...
Michael A. Kennedy '80 never had an identity crisis until he came to Harvard. He got his first shock at registration, where the biographical information about his mother in his registration packet bore no relation to the woman who reared...