Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject as "the effect of politics upon the lives of people in an Irish-American community in 1890." He said he is indebted to "one of the most beautiful books I've ever read," The Uprooted, by Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History, for its discussion of "the shock of coming from one culture to another...
...more important were the effects of President Kennedy's assassination. The shock of losing a President made most Americans wary of sudden changes in command and eager for continuity and stability. The bitter "Throw the bums out!" atmosphere of so many 1962 (and 1960 and 1963) state campaigns was replaced by a "Things are O.K.--keep the incumbents in" attitude...
Limited Franchise. The voting rights bill did not spring entirely from spur-of-the-moment shock at the outrages in Selma. Back in November, the President had ordered White House aides and Justice Department attorneys to begin designing a powerful and unprecedented measure to assure Negro voting rights. Well aware that it would be subjected to a quick and savage attack from the South on constitutional grounds, Johnson warned Katzenbach: "I want this bill completely legal." That was possible. But to make it completely tamperproof was another matter...
...formula used in The Bridge of San Luis Rey is here applied to an odd bunch of California misfits; the catastrophe they share is the news of President Kennedy's assassination. As the shock wave reverberates through their minds, Morris reveals the cracks and flaws of personality that in his view divide Americans from one another and thus make such a senseless outrage all too understandable. The book has the makings of a strong sermon; as a novel it runs aground within 50 pages in the shallows of its eccentric cast...
Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a gruesome slice of shock therapy that, pointedly, is not a sequel to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The two films are blood relatives, as Producer-Director Robert Aldrich well knows, but Charlotte has a worse plot, more gore, and enough bitchery to fill several outrageous freak shows...