Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marriage came as a considerable shock to Father Sponga's fellow Jesuits, none of whom had any clue to his intentions. Born in Philadelphia, he joined the Jesuits at the age of 17, earned a doctorate in philosophy from Fordham, and became a strong advocate of reform within the society. In 1957 he was named head of the Jesuits' Woodstock College, where he helped develop a brilliant staff of teaching theologians, which included the late Father John Courtney Murray. Three years ago, Sponga was named Maryland provincial, supervising 800 priests, lay brothers and seminarians...
...That shock of recognition-at the traumas of Viet Nam, riots in the cities, assassinations, the unresponsiveness of Congress-has led many to exaggerate their own political virtue. McCarthy loyalists have passionately protested the imposition of the unit rule in contests in which they have lacked a majority, but they have been just as ruthless as their opponents in invoking the unit rule when it worked in their favor. While the new politics of McCarthy has a refreshing directness, his followers have yet to establish that they themselves are above the petty manipulations that they condemn...
Laws to register and license firearms seemed within reach during the days of shock that followed Robert Kennedy's assassination. That prospect is now dimming with each passing...
...Carbide places a baby chicken in a small foil-lined metal box and then lowers it into a beaker of boiling water. Several long moments later, out pops the chick, frisky and unfried. The initial plunge is not exactly Grand Guignol, but it does provide a bit of a shock. A recent spot for American Motors shows a gang of men demolishing a competitor's car with sledge hammers. Who would admit to hating autos? Still, there is a certain undeniable thrill in seeing all that shiny metal crumple...
...Lyons and its director, Roger Planchon, have scandalized French traditionalists by taking gross liberties with the classics to give them contemporary credence. A U.S. audience is more likely to feel the faint shock of cultural lag. Freshly attuned to the theater of tribal intimacy, with its skin-to-skin actor-audience confrontations and its stereophonic barrage of sound, a playgoer may be startled to see a stylized drama in which each line is pruned, each gesture sculptured, each scene framed...