Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news that Adam Yarmolinsky has been sacrificed in order to get the anti-poverty bill through Congress [Aug. 14] comes as a sad shock to those of us who have known him since Yale Law School days (1946-48). What has delighted me about Adam has been that he combines ability, intelligence and integrity with imagination and ingenuity. He refuses to be the routine bureaucrat. Although not really an outdoorsman. he accompanied one paratroop group aloft on a training exercise as an observer. He then jumped with them. At another time he took a cruise on a Polaris submarine. Many...
...ovation. After the festival's opening concert last week, a capacity audience of 2,200 stamped, clapped and bravoed in a demonstration that verged on Beatlemania. One of the few in the hall who seemed unmoved by all the fuss was the man on the podium, hot-eyed, shock-haired Zubin Mehta, 28, the onetime boy wonder from Bombay who, in four years of conducting from Moscow to Montreal, has enjoyed one of the most spectacular ascents to fame in many a decade...
Distances & Delights. Chief problem for Europeans is the language barrier. The Japanese don't expect to communicate in anything but English, but most Continentals can get along in at least one other language besides their own, and it comes as a shock to find the Americans so relentlessly monolingual. The cash value of tourism, though, is bound to engender more linguistic proficiency. In only a year's time, New York City's Newtom Commuting Corp., has built up a booming hired-car service around the idea of having polylingual chauffeurs, who pick up foreigners at the airport...
...news itself was no shock; it had been expected. Engle had been bedridden much of the time since he under went surgery last August. The onetime cowpoke, amateur boxer and licensed pilot had served eight terms as Congressman from California's huge (53,-400 sq. mi.) Second District, had walloped ex-Governor Goodwin Knight by 600,000 votes in the 1958 race for the Senate, but had withdrawn this year because of his illness. That cleared the way for Salinger to make his successful primary...
Members of the literary Avant-Garde, he said, are attempting what Eliot and Pound tried to do--to restore language in order to restore communication. Today's almost shock-proof bourgeoisie is now being shocked in a subtler way, through language, Perosa added...