Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a couple of days to breathe the fresh air of common sense, I began to recognize that my initial shock was nothing more than a symptom of the liberal bias which routinely infects students at Harvard. The "right to carry" law is an important step in empowering the individual citizen, thus increasing freedom from crime and decreasing dependence on the government...
...that is what the CUE produces at its best--a 50 percent return rate of which, perhaps, 10 percent are useful and about five percent reflect sheer disgruntlement, while another five are testament to the general bliss of the excellent student doing well. It should come as no shock that I could do my final grading from these evaluations. I gave two straight As, had two truly disgruntled students in my class who did not do well, and felt that, overall, about 10 percent were really up on the material and engaged with the section. Par for the course...
...high-rise apartment block in Moscow's Perovsky district, residents gather in the parking lot to chat about the latest events of a country in seemingly perpetual shock. These garage-door gossips have exchanged plenty of heated words about Boris Yeltsin -- but that was before the Congress of People's Deputies put the question of impeaching Yeltsin to a vote. Now all of them back the Russian President...
Jones made clear at each performance that his purpose goes far beyond the goal of good entertainment. In fact, he became quite ruffled when his polite Harvard audience refused to "get riled up" by his clearly controversial style. His desire to shock his audience into a heightened consciousness was perhaps best evidenced by his solo "Last Night on Earth," which he performed at the Wang Center on Saturday. As the title suggests, the piece is largely autobiographical, or at least very personal. More performance art than traditional dance, the work was a combination of movement and verbal explanation. Anesthetically...
...hard-liners or even between rival ideologies. What Yeltsin has been trying to do with Russia may not be possible. Never before has a nation with such a despotic history as Russia's transformed itself into a multiparty democracy with a market economy. Yeltsin and his team of shock therapists have been at the task since the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, producing few successes and much turmoil, hardship and anxiety. As the pain mounted, Khasbulatov and the President's other conservative antimarket, anti-Western rivals muttered and threatened, then finally struck...