Word: shock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week to be crowned Queen of the annual Azalea Festival. Tiny Tricia (she's working at bringing her weight up to 100 Ibs.) went through an exhausting round of receptions and luncheons in a series of winsome minidresses, then gave the town fathers and mothers a mild shock by showing up for the coronation in her own gown instead of the one provided by the city. There to bestow the crown was her proud father, who stole a few hours away from the White House to fly down for the festival. Tricia also had something of a surprise...
...that they were ever failures, and who think, in fact, that the colleges are the failures. The reaction is natural; white administrators simply failed to foresee it. For lower-class Negroes, whose whole lives have been spent in black ghettos, the sudden move to white campuses often produces cultural shock. Everything is so white. How can a slum Negro cherish the glories of Greek culture, for example, while his sister supports him by ironing The Man's shirts? Even middle-class Negroes are often upset. Says Byron Merrit, a political science major at Syracuse University: "If white education...
...most theologians, it was a bit of each. And as a sensational catch phrase, they agree, the "death of God" phenomenon is indeed dead. It was a shock, says Chicago Divinity School's Langdon Gilkey, and "a shock can only be discussed so long." But as a point of departure from old forms of theological discourse, the idea is still evoking constructive responses. Even a stern critic like Dean John Dillenberger of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union is prepared to admit that the movement also "cleared away some simple-minded notions of what the life of God means...
...after Bobby was shot, who calmly pushed back the surging crowd in the hotel serving kitchen to give him air. Later, as he lay dying, she led a small group of friends and family out onto the roof of Good Samaritan Hospital for a break. Everybody was numb with shock, but Ethel was dry-eyed, her voice was firm, she even managed to laugh...
...fund drive. KPFK paid only five of its twelve employees last week. Still, Pacifica officials believe their stations will be able to continue assaulting the airwaves. After considering dozens of listener complaints, the FCC recently upheld Manhattan's WBAI. "The opinions and views of others may startle, shock and even offend," said the FCC. "But the drafters of the Constitution believed that no man has a monopoly on truth...