Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indivduals as for epochs the process of aging is normally a quiet and gradual affair, but the realization of youth having passed comes often as not with a suddenness, even a shock. Most of us, I suspect, mark that moment well and often thereafter in idle passages find ourselves touching the wound it left. My moment, and that of many like me, came with the death of Kennedy, and along with the others, I knew it. About the third day of that long, terrible time Mary McGrory said to me, "We'll never laugh again." And I answered, "Heavens, Mary...
...Pacific in World War II-and the U.S. fight to thwart them made a litany and legacy forever of such unlikely flecks on the map as Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Peleliu. The Enola Gay roared off from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb tests rolled out from Micronesia, denuding the little atolls of Bikini and Eniwetok. Today, Nike X antiballistic missiles zoom up from Kwajalein in test interceptions, and Atlas and Titan missiles from California end their long trial runs with gigantic splashes...
Walking on Clouds. The foundation's shock technique attempts to jar the children into attention and keep them from being distracted. Administrative Director S. Willard Footlik explains that the degree of force is fitted to the needs of each pupil and contends that "the children realize we aren't yelling at them because we're mad at them." The commands, he says, are always something the children are capable of carrying out-and when they do, "they walk on clouds because they have succeeded." The harsh drills are designed to help the children to control their actions...
...martinis and bragging about "our secret" for making them well. Distillers try to keep the women wifely instead of sex-kittenish. "The girl," says Seagram Distillers Co. President Bernard Tabbat, "has to be a nice girl." Adds National Distillers Vice President-General Manager Raymond Herrmann: "We don't shock with low-cut gowns, but we don't use nuns either." In rather startling exception to this cautious approach, Cluny Scotch shows an obviously thirsting elderly woman pouring her Cluny into a teacup...
...only thing I really enjoy about this so-called fame is that the audience comes prepared. They know what we're doing and it's not a shock to them. At so many places where we played before our first hit, the people didn't know what we were doing. They hadn't heard it before, but that was okay cause we just had to try that much harder to be better. With this fame, the audience is always more receptive to what you're trying...