Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...written statement following the fatal stabbing of Bunting Fellow Mary Joe Frug earlier this month, Wilson said, "The reaction of the entire Radcliffe community is one of shock, sadness and anger." But what is that "entire Radcliffe community" for which she speaks? Many would interpret that phrase as meaning the group of administrators, staff members and visiting scholars who work at Radcliffe, as well as the active members of organizations like the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...BEST OF JULUKA (Rhythm Safari). An object lesson in the benefits of / culture shock. Johnny Clegg, a white South African obsessed with Zulu culture, and Sipho Mchunu, a black man infatuated with the rhythm of rock, made seven raving, ravishing Juluka albums between 1979 and 1985. This selection of highlights from that time still has mule-kick energy, a proud social conscience and a sound that's fresher than the day after tomorrow...
...incident sent shock waves travelling up I-95 to Cambridge, causing many at Harvard to ask whether its nine all-male final clubs would be the next to go coed...
...slowly dawned on me that unless I mumbled under my breath, the famous quotation concept was leading nowhere. Time for Plan B: a response to an engagement announcement so understated and realistic that is was sure to be a hit. Rather than recoil in surprise and shock, I would announce an immediate prophecy of the couple's life prospects 30 years down the road...
...English language. Boswell revealed nothing particularly scandalous about his subject; it remained for later scholars to exhume hints suggesting Dr. Johnson's fondness for being tied up and whipped. But the overwhelming intimacy of the Life of Johnson -- its almost minute-by-minute portrait of a volatile genius -- sent shock waves throughout the 19th century and caused a number of noteworthy people to guard their privacy and papers with increased diligence...