Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost as dangerous, but luckily they break down quickly into harmless substances and so leave no poisonous residue on fruits and vegetables or in the soil. Their disadvantage is that they can poison farm workers who handle them carelessly. Miss Carson describes these very rare accidents and gets shock effect out of them, but they are comparable to accidents caused by careless handling of such violent industrial chemicals as sulfuric acid. The highly toxic phosphates are no menace to the general public, which seldom comes in contact with them...
...elders of the church and let them pray over him." The order insists that "spiritual healing" should be included in the ministry of established Protestant churches, traditionally chary of faith cures. Dominated by Episcopalians, the interdenominational Order of St. Luke exudes a well-bred approach that would shock Oral Roberts out of his snap-on microphone. There are no mountains of crutches or grandiose claims to prospective customers. Miracles are rarely mentioned...
...material has now been published in Letters from the Earth-only incidentally in the face of Russian taunts that the U.S. had suppressed Twain's antireligious writings. Letters adds little toward an understanding of the contempt Twain showed for religion in earlier writings, and is less likely to shock the modern reader than he imagined. But never before had Twain launched his attacks with such savage and scatological humor; Letters is a sort of last testament aimed at making the Old and the New look like nothing so much as cosmic comic books...
Lepers & Straitjackets. William Conway is not an easy case to diagnose. His adult life has shown only the characteristic dislocations of his age and time: the shock of World War II. a defunct marriage, a lucrative brokerage business to which he has become partly committed without any particular conviction. "It was a life," Conway sums it up. "one did not for instance interrupt in order to go out and nurse lepers. You knew the odds were you would get leprosy and become a burden to the nuns." At 41, Conway does not know where he is heading. He is troubled...
...LIFE senior writer in the '40s, Busch visited Japan to interview survivors of the disaster. Even so, he has had to pad his pages with ruminations about earthquake phenomena and Frank Lloyd Wright's design of the Imperial Hotel, which withstood the shock and created a legend that made the architect's international reputation. The legend neglected to point out that 99% of Tokyo's buildings actually rode out the tremors, if not the fire...