Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a background as the center of constructive growth, this site unfortunately became the scene of a tragedy which plunged the world into a state of shock. On November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, thirty-fifth President of the United States, visited Dallas...
...Indians, who were crowded into rundown districts like Paddington and Netting Hill Gate. Next, boys and girls divided up into foppishly dressed Mods and leather-jacketed Rockers, took to Brighton and Margate on holiday weekends to have a bit of a rumble while their elders rocked with still greater shock over the seamy revelations of the Profumo affair. Suddenly, with Profumo, the veneer of the upper classes finally and irreparably cracked. The working-class man saw that the Tories were not necessarily better or even better-behaved than he just because they appeared to be so. One result...
...tower. Westminster Abbey's statues and memorial have been newly cleaned and painted, and the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is undergoing a $420,000 polishing that will return it to the splendor envisioned by Sir Christopher Wren-and, hopefully, keep it that way, since electric-shock pigeon deterrents are being added. London Bridge is falling down, and plans have been drawn for a $6,700,000 replacement...
When they got over the shock, the drugmakers reacted cautiously. Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association President C. Joseph Stetler regretted that Goddard's reprimand would be interpreted as a blanket indictment, yet conceded that "nobody in that room wanted to be with firms that were responsible for submitting the data mentioned in the speech." On the other hand, a high official of the Health, Education and Welfare Department, which supervises FDA, found the speech "a good first draft-but a bit intemperate...
Bigness Is Sickness. Kienholz himself sees his work as morality plays, as subtly scripted, static happenings. If they shock, it is merely to catch attention. Of Back Seat Dodge-'38, the artist says: "I think, when kids see where they are and why they are, I really think they would have second thoughts about what they're going to do with their lives. With my Dodge, the romantic nonsense is gone...