Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fantasies through which we wander in The Words are wonderfully treated, for Sartre is a writer of frightening soft power. They often catch something in the preconscious of the reader and they hold it as the shock of recognition floods in. But while a portion of these fantasies are conscious and intended, most of them are not. Sartre has, for example, to some degree, the illusion of having experienced a perfect infancy. Because his father died when he was very young, Sartre believes he escaped the burden of Oedipal difficulties stemming from father-son competition...
About a week after the assassination, Lady Bird Johnson dictated her recollections on a tiny tape recorder-"primarily as a form of therapy to help me over the shock and horror of the experience." A transcript was sent to the Warren Commission...
...survivors, grey with shock and gaudy with bloodstains, hiked the mile and a half to the airport. There bullet-riddled U.S. C-130 transports-winged by rebel ground fire during the airdrop -waited to fly them to Leopoldville and safety. "It was not a happy, singing group," said Hoyt with grim understatement, "although I couldn't help feeling glad to be alive...
...rear of the plane. The relative gentleness of the takeoff and the curved trajectory result from the interaction of several forces: the man's weight and air resistance, the speed and altitude of the plane, and the stretchability of the woven nylon line, which absorbs shock as it lengthens. Within five minutes of liftoff, the man is hoisted aboard the plane...
...shock is wearing off and familiarity is setting in, two facts are emerging about the proliferating art movement called pop. First, it has proved to be the most copied U.S. art movement abroad since abstract expressionism, now turns up in galleries from Rome to Tokyo...