Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they had best not gaze up the 60 stories of the Hancock Building unless they prepare themselves for an aesthetic shock. For hovering above Copley Square--one of Boston's most pleasant sections--is the unfinished checkered Hancock monolith...
THAT HARVARD students should appear apathetic to anti-imperialist struggles in Indochina, Latin America, and Africa comes as less than a shock. The whole country finds Spire Agnew's alleged crimes as a country executive in Maryland more titillating news than daily reports of continuing warfare abroad. But more surprising is students ignorance of political ferment in their own backyard. While Harvard steers a steady course, at least one neighboring university still simmers with tensions left over from more explosive days...
...essence is caught in a simple story called The Health of the Sick. Alejandro, the favorite son of a large and loving Argentine family, is killed in an auto accident, the author explains. It is felt that his aging mother could not stand the shock of this news, so family members conspire to pretend, through an elaborate series of forged letters, that the son has suddenly been called abroad by his employer. The fraud continues for a year or so, until the mother dies. Three or four days later the last of the forged letters from "Alejandro" arrives...
...doctors and public health officials have waged a steady war against cigarettes. Now their efforts seem to be increasing. Last month Arizona became the first state to take legal action against tobacco by banning smoking in public places. Britain's Health Education Council, meanwhile, turned to shock tactics in its campaign against cigarettes. It released a poster showing a child dragging on a cigarette as he perched in his high chair. Its message: when a child breathes air filled with cigarette smoke, the result can be as bad as if he actually smoked himself...
...just another employee at an outfit called Hightower Investigations, Inc. ABC's Griff (Lome Greene) is an ex-cop while in NBC's Faraday and Company Dan Dailey is an ex-con who, after 28 years in a South American jail, is slated to battle future shock as well as his crooked quarry. ABC even has an ex-human: Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man, rebuilt after a near-fatal plane crash into a cyborg (cybernetic organism, that is, with two legs, one arm and one eye that are nuclear-powered synthetics...