Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This might have been the Cain to end Cains-and is more likely to do that in quite a different way. But not at the box office. There, considering the stars and the shock value, it ought to gross its weight in uranium...
...sanity, she thought: "Here on [a] narrow cot, clothed in a numbered nightgown, [I lie] with women who [are] insane and [I am] one of them." After almost a year at Juniper Hill, Virginia was pronounced cured-but not before she and her fellow patients had been treated to shock therapy, hydrotherapy, psychoanalytical questionings, paraldehyde dosings and old-fashioned madhouse discipline...
What George Can't Do. If General Marshall looked ten years older on his return to China, as some observers thought, it was not from the shock of disillusion. The patient, war-seasoned soldier had again & again emphasized the real U.S. role in China-the establishment of a political and economic climate in which the Chinese themselves might attain unity and strength. In Chungking this week he was not surprised when each side assured him that the other had started the shooting...
...drama at intervals between the swiftly moving seenes. Her charms, however, prove incapable of restraining a restless audience, hastening to leave, before she concludes the show. This is bad management on the part of the producers, who should know that the average audience has got to have a shock or a thrill right up to the last second...
...fight has always been. This scene and that of the campfire on the eve of Agincourt where three Englishmen spell out for their king what war is all about--that it is not gaudy trappings and caparisons, but fear and mud and obscene smells--early an ice-cold shock of recognition for a world that has just got another war under its belt...