Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Electric shock is still the fastest and most effective treatment for depression. But psychiatrists prefer to try the drugs first, because shock so often produces temporary memory loss and confused thinking. Dr. Kline hopes not only to reduce the need for shock, but to speed up the energizers more conveniently with doses of 5-HTP taken by mouth, instead of injection...
...enlightened one, who sacrifices himself for others, and Mahayana mythology contains numerous examples of sacrifices as an act of love as well as a means of liberation. Zen Buddhism, one of the subdivisions of Mahayana, imported by the Japanese from China, emphasizes a combination of prolonged meditation and shock to achieve satori, or enlightenment...
...personal fortune and was left free to range the world, fighting the Moors, the English and the Turks. Based on trial records opened only six years ago in the archives of Milan, this new book takes a fresh look at a drama that was lurid and violent enough to shock even 17th century Europe, which wallowed in turbulence, superstition and sacrilege...
...result in Reischauer's opinion is that U.S. students are actually more active politically, and in a healthier way, than are Japanese students. It almost invariably comes as a shock to Japanese students, he said, to learn that their American counterparts participate in campaigning, door-to-door canvassing...
...forgiven Haley for what he considered a stab in the back from within the Establishment. "The Profumo case," said Macmillan fatuously last week, "revealed the very high standard we try to maintain in British public life," because otherwise the affair would not have "caused so great a shock." The judge in the Ward case himself echoed the widespread view that Ward was an exception, and that "the even tenor of the British family goes on quietly." And the Bishop of Exeter maintained that the "Profumo scandal does not prove that the private morals of public men are worse in this...