Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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City officials were relieved last week as the number of protesters dropped dramatically, after weekend rallies that drew at least 25,000 pro-lifers and 6,000 pro-choicers from across the country. Though shock troops on both sides are exhausted, following 2,600 arrests and countless screaming matches, tempers remain high. "The lines are drawn in offices and factory plants," says the Rev. George Gardner of College Hill United Methodist Church. Jane Gilchrist, a leading pro-choice activist, complains, "You can't go to the grocery store, church or the barbershop without talking about...
What is happening in the U.S.S.R. comes as a shock partly because the Russians had a reputation, even among themselves, for being passive, obedient, politically "uncultured." A similar image, tinged with racism, persists about the mysterious East: hordes of little yellow people waving little red books. But the miraculous spring of 1989 in China was as much a refutation of the authoritarian stereotype as was the second Russian Revolution two weeks ago. China's democracy movement yielded to the tanks on Tiananmen Square, but many of its leaders -- and, more important, its followers -- will be back. Any form of government...
...long chase. For 10 months Mike rode long hours in the cruiser with Coleman as part of an experiment to reform young delinquents. The theory behind the program is that cops can be strong role models for the youths, who get to view crime from the victims' perspective, a shock that courts and reformatories cannot provide...
...Impatient with skimpy newspaper accounts of the spread of AIDS, she wrote away for pamphlets and photocopied them for her clients. "I read that you had to have condoms," she says, "so I ordered 5,000." And she talks to the local teenagers as bluntly as possible. "You cannot shock or embarrass me," she tells them. The most effective part of her programs, she says, is that they "get people to talk and communicate -- to make sex not such a big mystery...
...forces of good are inert. The masses . . . have no fight in them, and will acquiesce in whatever happens." Until last week the Russian character was judged to be politically passive, even receptive to brutal rule. At first the coup seemed to confirm the norm. The news administered a dark shock, followed immediately by a depressed sense of resignation: of course, of course, the Russians must revert to their essential selves, to their own history. Gorbachev and glasnost were the aberration; now we are back to fatal normality. "Every country has the government it deserves," Joseph de Maistre wrote...