Word: shockers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's performance, Strauss's one-act shocker still had plenty of power - from the moment the enlarged orches tra came crashing to life, through the frankly erotic music accompanying the incestuous recognition scene between Elektra and Orest, to Elektra's shrieking "Stab her once more!" at the news that Klytaemnestra had been struck down. But the performance also was a reminder that Elektra no longer has the almost physical shock value it possessed in Strauss's time: overlaying the stark story is a thin coat ing of German Gemütlichkeit that too often...
...Smith appointment was a real shocker for Massachusetts Democratic regulars. Affable Ben Smith, 44, was not a real member of party inner circles, though he had helped Kennedy out during the primary campaigns, and had no demonstrable capacity to be an effective U.S. Senator. His principal qualification seemed to be that he was once Kennedy's Harvard roommate, served as an usher at Kennedy's wedding (as Kennedy served at Smith's), and is a darned good tuna fisherman who once got his name in Ripley for a record catch. He is the scion of an oldtime...
...later chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, was holding regular services. It was not until 1873 that it began to attract its biggest audiences. To hear the "pulpit genius," Dr. Joseph Parker, actors, authors, artists and bohemians pressed into City Temple alongside primmer Victorians. Preacher Parker often rewarded them with a shocker; when, during the Turkish-Armenian hostilities, he thundered. "I say God damn the Sultan!'', the newspapers headlined: DR. PARKER LETS HIMSELF...
Aglow with success, the erratic Premier saved his shocker until the end. "The United Nations has plotted with Kasavubu to overthrow my government and failed," he shouted. "We must demand the immediate withdrawal of all United Nations troops from the Congo...
Stiff-lipped but studiously correct, Chancellor Raab got the final shocker at a hotel banquet in Klagenfurt. "Neutrality is no mountain fastness," Khrushchev warned. "The fight for peace concerns all people. The presence of rocket bases in northern Italy-and if they are used against the Socialist countries-would presuppose a violation of Austrian neutrality." For its own sake, he said, Austria should warn Italy against "playing with fire." The clear threat: if war should start, Russian troops would cross the Austrian border without compunction...