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...that is, industrial society, as quickly and painlessly as possible. In short, Toffler is indeed a revolutionary. And revolutionaries are in short supply these days, even if they wear button-downs. Americans, ensconced in their conservative ways, need people like Toffler to prod them out of their listless intellectual stupor...
...recent years, dissidents have reached the West with tales of political victims held incommunicado in psychiatric hospitals, sometimes drugged into a docile stupor, beaten or tied to their beds to wallow in their own excrement. These practices have outraged world opinion, but the World Psychiatric Association timidly avoided the subject at its last meeting...
...sensational escape of the man whom Romans called "the Hangman of the Ardeatine Caves" rocked Italy out of its holiday stupor like an earthquake. "An offense to the memory of all the victims of Nazi ferocity," declared the Christian Democrats' official daily, Il Popolo. Howled Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A humiliating scandal without redemption." A summit meeting between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italy's Premier Giulio Andreotti, scheduled for later in the week, was promptly postponed, and Rome's Communist-elected mayor Giulio Carlo Argan led a march in memory...
Catastrophe pervades Percy's psychology. It takes an apocalyptic force to shake Lancelot out of a seven-year stupor in which his only pleasure in life was Raymond Chandler novels, and into a reevaluation of his quality of life (which moves him to such drastic action). Percy's characters often are alienated and then transformed by an experience which gives them a new perspective. He likes to describe this new ability to see the whole from a distance as a Martian perspective. Yet only after such an experience are Percy's characters capable of love, a principle solidified...
...back made it. Seated in row 34, Mrs. Floy Heck of Leisure World sat in a stupor until her husband Paul ordered: "Floy, get up!" He led her to the wing. She jumped, injuring her legs, and could not walk. "I kept praying and asked Jesus to help me, and I kept crawling away." She did not see her husband again until they were reunited in a U.S. hospital...