Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carey claimed that he had been "completely surprised" by the election switch-about, but not everyone believed him. Commented A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany: "Everybody in Washington knew what was going on. The only shock was the amount of the pilferage...
...open mind toward the new, the shocking, even the intolerable in art is an intellectual duty, if only because so many great and shocking artists from Swift to Joyce were so vehemently condemned at first. It hardly follows that any writer who manages to shock is therefore automatically entitled to respect as a worthy rebel. Yet this is how their followers regard the heroes of today's avantgarde, notably Jean Genet (Our Lady of the Flowers) and William Burroughs (Naked Lunch). "The new immoralists" is what they are labeled by Partisan Review Editor William Phillips, who is anything...
...thing, the constant use of the limited four-letter vocabulary tends to rob the words of what legitimate shock effect they used to have. "Powerful words should be reserved for powerful occasions," says Novelist Philip Toynbee. "Words like money can be devalued by inflation." Stuart B. Flexner, co-author of the authoritative Dictionary of American Slang, believes that this is already happening. "The next step is to find a new crop," he says, "but I don't know yet what these will...
...While coverage of the Selma story by TIME has been unusually fair, reporting by most news media has been so selective as to violate actuality. Hate and rancor from Selma's "men on the streets" have made front pages everywhere, but Selmians' expressions of shock and confession are not making even back pages anywhere-except in Selma. While the newsmen have kept us remembering that Selma has her Sheriff Jim Clark, the press has failed to tell the nation that Selma also has her Roswell Falkenberry, the moderate editor of the Selma Times Journal, who voices...
...Jojo and his fellow Negroes, who "must judge all systems from the limbo of our skin," the greatest shock of all is the strident racial prejudice of a nation whose leaders deny that prejudice exists. The Negroes' white girl friends are suddenly shipped away from Moscow-to "Keep Russia Red." On the streets, they are always stared at, occasionally attacked, and often taunted with the Russian equivalent of "nigger" -"black monkey...