Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Catullus," a poem with an explicitly sexual ending. This has reportedly enraged the Quincy House Committee, and it is rumored that funds for a second issue are dependent upon more polite selections. It is of course easy in such cases to avoid examining the poem behind the shock; here, it is a disservice to the author. In this and his other poems, Bidart exercises a kind of Jewish irony in his diction which recalls Alan Dugan, last year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. This is certainly a refreshing change from the surfeit of pseudo-Lowell which...
...HOMECOMING is the season's most tantalizing drama, by Harold Pinter, who prods and arouses with the twin-tined fork of shock and humor. Vivien Merchant leads the Royal Shakespeare Company through a moody production in which even the pauses are eloquent...
...Shock Troops...
...Perhaps the death of the three astronauts was a tragic reminder to the American public that will hopefully shock us out of our increasing indifference toward our space program...
...mental hospitals if they weren't in the center, and others would be called psychiatrists outside. Visitors can't tell which is which. No one is being 'treated' in any accepted sense." In the centers, schizophrenics get an absolute minimum of tranquilizing drugs, and no shock treatment or brain surgery. The atmosphere is infinitely more permissive than in the most liberal mental hospital. Patients get up and go to bed when they please. They may do household work and cooking-or not, as they choose. They may spend whole days at solitaire or checkers, or just...