Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oconomowoc, Wis., transformed itself into a mock Soviet classroom for a week last year. St. Paul high school students are taught about early experiments in Communism, "so when we come to Russia and its Communism, it's not a shock." Denver maintains a committee of teachers to decide how to handle touchy subjects...
...inactivated by an injection of procaine (Novocain). More than 75% of all patients get some relief, reports Dr. Overholt; and in 50% or more, the relief is significant and sometimes dramatic. All his patients have been asthmatics for whom no other treatment, from portable respirators to electric shock, was effective. Most important, whereas previous nerve surgery for asthma sometimes disturbed the blood pressure or heart rate, no ill effects have yet been detected from removal of a carotid body...
Charlotte has a seven-year widow's itch for a mate. Humbert obliges, but only because he has a very special itch for her gum-chewing, Coke-swigging daughter Lolita (Sue Lyon). The shock effect of this is dimmed, since the film ducks the duty of specifying Lolita's age and gives the part to a girl of 14 who looks a round 17. Making her movie debut, Teen-Ager Lyon is simply overmatched by the demands of her part. She acts knowing rather than sexy, and she lacks what Nabokov himself has defined as the "demoniac" essence...
THEY weren't new questions. But they were being asked insistently and energetically by someone who indicated that she might even know the answers. Applying the shock treatment with all the skill and persistence of a dedicated scientist was Radcliffe's fifth President, Mary I. Bunting...
...which most of them are unprepared. At least 650 seniors will have to grapple with the complexities of real life for months, after which they back into the protective arms Grad School. But even go out into the big wide sooner or later, and they are , not escaping, the shock of immersion into real...