Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of these students did not admit having experienced culture shock on their return to America or to Harvard. They say they are experts at adaptation, acting one way in America and another way abroad. To Holloway, who has never spent more than four years in any one place, Harvard seems like "just another assignment." It may be habit, an expression of chic, a youthful fixation or something wrong with American society that makes re-entry seems less than totally desirable to many. It may be significant that these particular students, many of whose parents are connected with government service...
...days still in high power. And then, Kissinger told his patient listeners, the American people would probably wake up with the spring flowers to see what he and some others had long known: the power of the Soviet Union was drawing abreast of the U.S.'s-a profound shock after a quarter-century of overwhelming superiority...
...some, the decision comes with a shock of disgusted recognition, like a less heroic version of Hemingway's Lieut. Henry bidding a farewell to arms by jumping into the frigid Tagliamento River...
Come January, though, the Hanemanns were in for a big shock. Spiro's wife Monette--who was attending the Business School after allegedly faking transcripts--was also arrested by the FBI for falsifying applications for government-insured loans...
When I first learned I'd been assigned to North House, I ran to my window in the Yard and yelled several unpleasant things at the top of my voice. But the shock soon wore off, and, deciding to be as reasonable as possible, I went up to the Quad with my roommate group for dinner...