Word: shock
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...Marshall noted, the day democracy in Southeast Asia may have the last laugh indeed "remains a long way off." But the Thai coup, while not an event worth celebrating, should not have been a shock and is not a blow to democracy in the region. Rather, it simply shows how little progress democracy has made in putting down roots since the last coup. Efforts to establish democracy in Thailand have failed because they have been imposed from the top. Nothing has been done to educate the people at the grass roots, thus leaving a very shaky foundation. The development...
...movie seesaws between the twin poles of masochism and sadism. It's a cunning variation on a behavioral test given to college students: they're instructed to push a button that will administer an electric shock to someone in the next room and, often as not, they do as they're told. There the point is to see if the subjects will take orders against their best instincts. Here, Jigsaw has two rationales for his eccentric behavior. One is to punish people he believes are moral transgressors, though his judgments tend to be hasty and draconian. The other is more...
...Angeles, one of the most diverse cities in the world, has the lowest level of trust in the United States, Putnam said. He attributed this to a “socio-psychological system overload,” a type of shock resulting from an influx of heterogeneous newcomers into a generally homogeneous society...
...understand such issues that they faced then, such as plastic surgery, which was very new at the time and now has become slightly more commonplace, but still is, you know, a little bit taboo.Shields: Where as it was shocking in the ’70s it might now be a little bit comic.Noyer: It helps enhance…Shields: The culture shock.Noyer: The culture shock, but also the authenticity of the show.The original director and choreographer Michael Bennett based the characters in the musical on real dancers; Shields met with the actors and encouraged them to individually flesh...
...public discrimination. The immigration reform files today are almost entirely devoid of racist language and the sort of language that, 100 years ago, was taken for granted. Your ear, if you were transported back to 1915, would hear things you don't hear now, and it would be a shock. Does America generally have a history of welcoming or begrudging newcomers? We've always been of mixed minds about immigrants, and that's because immigrants bring both bads and goods. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson - you can find them one week welcoming immigrants and the next week saying there...