Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lined study that looked like a stage setting for Trollope, he had an engaging interview with the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher. Son John read his father's file, then relaxed: "He's a good reporter-as a matter of fact, it is always a small shock of surprise to see again just how good...
Then, at 5:17 a.m., the earthquake struck Skoplje, jarring awake its 170,000 inhabitants. Pilot Blagojevic felt the first shock and rushed to the window. "The whole railway station folded in on itself," he recalls, "and the wreckage covered a train that was pulling into the station. For endless seconds you could hear only the thunder of collapsing buildings. In the room next to mine a woman was screaming for help...
...sexual act in terms of a case history or social protest (and the Olympia Press's professional pornographers are driven to exploit De Sadean whips, chains and intricate multiple interlacings to keep ahead of the uncensored press), Fanny Hill's straightforward heterosexuality must come as a shock. None of her escapades, for instance, are as unsavory as the AC-DC boy-meets-boy encounters of James Baldwin's Another Country, nor are they as grubbily explicit as the climactic sexual passage in Updike's Rabbit...
Long Overdue. Having been relieved last spring at the relative mildness of the first part of the SEC report (TIME, April 12), Wall Streeters were shocked by the sharpness of Part 2. Some grumbled that the criticisms and suggestions were "wild" and "unknowing." Said Floor Trader Edwin H. Stern: "The other floor traders think what I think. They don't know what to think." But after the first shock, many close observers of the market acknowledged that the proposed reforms are long overdue, would bring the market up to date and raise investor confidence...
...should not be necessary to defend it, especially on the pages of a publication under the auspices of Harvard University. The freedom to hear and discuss all point of view has so long been part of the air we breathe at Harvard that it comes as a profound shock to find that the Summer School does not uphold that freedom...