Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebel junta that plotted Kassem's overthrow was apparently made up of captains and lieutenants, except for its leader, ex-Paratroop Colonel Abdul Mustafa. But the man they put forward as their front man came as a shock to Kassem, fighting for his life inside the battered Defense Ministry. The junta named as its new rebel head of state Colonel Abdul Salam Aref, 41, long Kassem's closest friend and most loyal disciple, and alive only because Kassem commuted his 1959 death sentence...
...amount of radio energy from any source is fairly easy to measure, and when Caltech Radio Astronomers P. Maltby. T. A. Matthews and A. T. Moffet com pared this figure with the distance of the associated galaxy,* they got something of a shock. Some of the stronger pairs were emitting 4.4 times 10 ^44 ergs* per second in radio energy, an astonishing figure that represents more than 100 billion times the heat and light energy emitted...
...sixth book, this 30-year-old author's prose is more than ever remarkable for its astonishing and somewhat studied brilliance. As before. Updike finds his way more accurately than almost anyone else now writing to the small touchstones of mind and memory; there is the little shock, and then yes, that is how first lust feels, how an auto repair shop tastes, how it is to wake up in a strange bed when it has snowed through the night. The author does this so well that the reader can find himself at the point of tears...
Charles Hart's failure is due principally to his didactic attitude. He tries to act the experienced expositor of strange worlds to an ignorant audience, but his attempts to shock by strong language and unusual situation merely confuse his story and annoy his listeners. Nor are the plot and characters so novel. The salvation of the fallen woman, Carol, after her final rejection of environment, friends, and lover has been told before; the twist of using the reactivated love of her crude paramour Morey instead of that of a new Prince Charming is the only originality. Hart's background characters...
...moment that the songs from Die Schone Mullerin and hardly suited to a woman's voice and manner. Der Tod und das Madchen, on the other hand, conveyed such a deep sense of both the terror and the serenity of death, that it was with a bit of a shock that I recalled de los Angeles' remark to her accompanist Gerald Moore in his book Am I Too Loud? When he arrived backstage, weeping copiously after one of her opera performances, she greeted him with: "Don't worry, my dee-ah boy, I was only pretending to die, you know...