Word: shock
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...enter the realm of unreality. Great clouds of smoke, in a palette running from white, through gray, to black, billowed where the twin towers of the World Trade Center had stood. New Yorkers stood around, some weeping, others holding a hand over their mouth in the universal signal of shock. People pressed mobile phones to their ears, calling loved ones (though many of the mobile networks were overloaded.) For a while, all bridges and tunnels off the island were closed, turning Manhattan into the world?s richest prison. And everyone went through a awful mental checklist; which friend, neighbor...
...this is a day that will lodge in the memory for ever. So it will for all of us in New York with less demanding and vital responsibilities, as we think of and pray for those charged with recovering the dead, rescuing the injured, and comforting a city in shock...
...from a student mentor, the first of several communications they will receive over the summer. The mentors, selected through a rigorous application process, are sophomores or juniors who still have vivid memories of the emotional turbulence of their freshman year. Anstine, an A student in high school, recalls the shock of getting her first college D. "I bawled," she says...
...smack into the class divide when she went from small-town life in Albert Lea to the University of Chicago. "It was major culture shock," she says. "There were ways of life that I had read books about, and fantasized about, but never imagined were real. I discovered how ignorant I was of the culture with a capital C." But, she adds, "I caught on eventually to how ignorant and provincial those people were. They knew nothing of my life...
...raining down on "The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson (Harcourt; October). PW gives it a starred, boxed review, its highest accolade. "Johnson reevaluates what happened to America in the ?90s and paints a warts-and-all portrait that may shock many Americans and force others to review the new millennium?s values...America from 1990 to 2001 - from impeachment to recession, the rise of the Internet to the fall of Nasdaq, and the upheaval of the 2000 elections - is covered in startling detail by Johnson. He has written a magnetic...