Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most recently, Grove Press has published A Secret Life, a book by an anonymous Victorian who led a lurid life. Although the book's contents might easily be judged obscene (the index alone is enough to shock most of us) it will probably not be brought to court...
...Ting Chang, Research Fellow in Biology, was paralyzed for several hours by the shock of the explosion. He was treated for first degree burns under the right arm and on the chest and a contusion to the chest at Cambridge City Hospital. Other students in the Labs were not injured...
...floods that tore through the Renaissance city of Florence have gone, but the mud and shock remain. So far, 885 objects of irreplaceable art have been declared casualties. The principal victim: Cimabue's 13th century Crucifix ion, drowned inside the Santa Croce museum, where waters rose more than 14 feet. "It's a corpse, the paint is gone, and it can only be displayed as a relic," said University of Pennsylvania Art Professor Frederick Hartt...
...Sistine Chapel-where Popes are elected and many solemn church decisions announced-Paul VI last week summoned delegates of the Jesuit General Congregation that for two months has been debating the reform of the order traditionally regarded as Roman Catholicism's highly disciplined and educated shock troops. To outsiders, the renewal effort has seemed dryly procedural and strikingly inconclusive; Paul's surprising purpose was to denounce sternly the "strange and sinister suggestions" that he detected in the discussions...
Student demonstrations against the war in Viet Nam have not had much zing this fall, so the Harvard chapter of Students for a Democratic Society set out last week "to do something that would shock the college community out of its vicarious war weariness." Its mem bers managed to shock Harvard, all right -by breaking the university's tradition of rational discourse and outraging plenty of people elsewhere who share that scruple...