Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breathes ordinary air for one hour. This cycle is repeated around the clock. Of Ashfield's first 40 patients, only three have died during treatment and two turned out to have had both major coronary arteries blocked. These two were among twelve who were in cardiogenic shock (almost complete circulatory collapse), a condition that carries a forbidding mortality of 80% or more. But all ten others, even in this worst-risk group, survived...
...When on Wednesday, the flags go all the way up and the stores are open--won't we have business as usual?" he asked. "Won't all the mourning be no more than a handling of our shock? St. Paul spoke of two kinds of sorrow--the godly kind which leads to change and the sorrow of the world which leads only to tears and once the tears are dry, passes away. Which kind is ours...
...experimentation are easier than they have been in the past. In 1960, Professor Stanley Milgram of Yale embarked on a study of "obedience to authority" which was later to arouse much moral outrage. Under the pretense that he was studying the effect of punishment on learning, Milgram had subjects shock a "student" (actually a member of the experimental team) when the "student" erred in a prescribed task. Although the "student" never actually received a shock, the subjects were asked to administer the punishment in increasing voltages. The voltages were labeled "slight shock," "very strong shock," "danger: severe shock...
...Ernst show, "Works on Paper," now at the Busch-Reisinger is a connoisser's show, well organized, comprehensive, and, among other things, it reunites two important series of Ernsts works. Yet it is all too raisonne; the daring, the shock, the excitement of Ernst and the Dadaist-Surrealists seems to have escaped...
Congress' reaction to the 1932 kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son was shock, rage and a stiff law: "Whoever knowingly transports in interstate commerce any person who has been unlawfully kidnaped and held for ransom or otherwise, shall be punished by death if the kidnaped person has not been liberated unharmed and if the verdict of the jury shall so recommend." Last week, on the basis of the jury verdict last clause, the Supreme Court struck down the Lindbergh law's death-penalty provision...