Word: shockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eying me as if I had developed a recent liking for Martin Luther, "Harvard doesn't have a religion department--you might just as well be going to Yeshiva or someplace like that." (Ignatius had done graduate work in mathematics at Yeshiva and had never recovered from the shock.) Worse than that, though, Harvard didn't have discipline--no more parietals, no compulsory chapel at 6 a.m. And to top it all off, Harvard had women. The path to damnation was opening wider and wider in Ignatius's eyes...
...test one desperate day when, in the dining-room, he wheeled around a corner, tray in hand, only to confront The Most Beautiful Woman in Radcliffe (this is what everyone calls her--her family name has long since been discarded). The shock of being within three feet of The Most Beautiful Woman in Radcliffe was too much for my roommate, and his tray came clattering down, gracefully allowing the day's lunch to take up residence on his penny-loafers...
Even before her husband Chester, president of a 250-store grocery chain, died in 1970, Marjorie Jackson (as she was known) entertained rarely and never mixed hi local circles. After Chester's death, she became even more reclusive. Says a neighbor: "The shock of losing him really cracked her." She withdrew into "the Bible," as she put it. She set aside four days of the week as "holy days" for meditation and organ playing. One holiday, she set her dining table for twelve-though no guests were invited and no meal was prepared. Piled high in one room were...
...such as this occurred throughout the show. Its creators, realizing that the average American's conception of mime includes whiteface makeup, clowning, and exaggeration, began many of the sketches in a comic spirit, which later gave way to a more serious message. Once the audience was conditioned to the shock value the medium is capable of, the actors presented a wide variety of emotions and ideas in later sketches...
...arterial supply, the patient's heart might have sprung back into action spontaneously. Instead, it twitched uselessly. Mamiya coolly called for the paddles-two plastic-covered electric stimulators-and pressed them against the exposed heart. It jumped under the shock, but continued twitching ineffectually...