Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadway knows both Clifford Goldsmith and George Abbot as sure-fire when it comes to drawing in the crowds. Goldsmith does not waste his time writing unsuccessful plays, and Abbot, makes a living out of the money he puts into the theatre. It is therefore a somewhat sorry shock to seee "Mr. Cooper's left Hand...
...Unprepared. It had long been plain that labor, freed of its wartime no-strike pledge, had also cut loose from the Little Steel formula, was ready to move swiftly and decisively to keep its wartime wage rate. It was also plain that Washington was completely unprepared to meet the shock...
...world could not get used to Russia's new idea of Russia. Shock and deepest pessimism resulted whenever the Russians (sometimes with skill but never with tact) revealed their conception of Russia's place in the postwar world...
Seeking escape by the only likely-looking "exit," he pops through a little side door. An electric shock tickles his feet. He bolts up a ramp to a death chamber where electric contacts finish him off and dump his body into a wire basket. Meanwhile, the trap resets itself for another victim. The whole cycle takes about three minutes...
...will shock readers not merely because it is an impassioned, often hysterical defense of the Prussian tradition, but because, with the ink of the peace treaties barely dry, it brusquely awakes the war-dazed U.S. mind to the fact that suddenly there is no longer any such thing as "subversive" literature. The very freedom for which the U.S. has been fighting demands that such books be given a hearing...