Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artistically creative" movie, civil disobedience is condoned by churchmen, children are allowed to do whatever they please so as not to injure their development as total persons, and American youths are justified when they seek freedom without responsibility as a way of life; yet the nation expresses shock at one man taking another's life. Come now, if a disease is allowed to spread, why such surprise when it kills...
...louder; as long as we may feel that there are weaker beasts willing to be told, to be led, to be directed. We have been like that from prehistoric man to the scholars of today. Because this country has refused to accept that fact for so long, its outbursts shock you and surprise you. You have always had an image of innocence, of overgrown children and maybe you reveled in it because innocence is related to purity of motives...
...easily deflected from the worry that their stable society is seriously threatened-or, to continue the Icarus imagery, that the nation's high-flying hopes might be doomed to a fiery fall. That concern weighed on many minds as the country was getting back to business after the shock of Robert Kennedy's assassination. At Harvard's class day last week, David Shelton, the senior-class chorister, chanted new lyrics to the university's old anthem. Among the lines...
...view one another in caricature and stereotype. Riots, assassinations and Viet Nam have all contributed, justly or unjustly, to an image of an increasingly violent U.S. in the eyes of much of the world. In the first few hours after the shooting of Robert Kennedy, the outpouring of shock and sorrow from the public figures and press of the world expressed considerably more than the simple hope for Kennedy's survival. Much of it consisted of messages addressed to the American people and American society that said, in effect: Get well...
...want another Oswald! Hold him, Rafer . . . The Senator is on the ground! He's bleeding profusely . . . The ambulance has been called for, and this is a terrible thing! . . . Ethel Kennedy is standing by. She is calm, a woman with a tremendous amount of presence . . . The shock is so great my mouth is dry . . . We are shaking as is everyone else. I do not know if the Senator is dead or if he is alive...