Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to go and leave Mrs. Kennedy in this situation. I said so, but I agreed that we would board the airplane and wait until Mrs. Kennedy and the President's body were brought aboard the plane. I suppose, actually, that the only outlet for the grief that shock had submerged was our sharp, painful, and bitter concern and solicitude for Mrs. Kennedy. We were ushered into the private quarters of the President's plane. It didn't seem right for John Kennedy not to be there...
That kind of shock-for-shock's-sake has proved too much for many readers...
...Ramparts' circulation stood at 15,000, which remakes the old point that sensationalism sells-at least for a while. Made up with zip and full of color photos, Ramparts avoids the drab look of most leftist magazines. And no other left-wing publication in the U.S. pursues shock more relentlessly or plays around more with fact. "We look at things from a moral point of view," explains Editor Warren Hinckle...
When Kurt Georg Kiesinger was first proposed as German Chancellor, much of the world's press expressed shock that a man with a Nazi past could be considered for the post. Kiesinger answered the attacks by citing the enthusiastic support he received from Germany's only nationwide Jewish news paper, Allgemeine Unabhangige Judische Wochenzeitung (General Independent Jewish Weekly). Emphasizing that he had been an inactive, reluctant party member, he referred doubters to the paper's editor. "Ask my friend Karl Marx," he said...
...Roman Catholic theologian. A peritus (expert) at the Second Vatican Council, he has been editor of the Clergy Review, a provocative intellectual monthly aimed at priests, professor of theology at Jesuit-run Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, and has written several well-reviewed theological tomes. Understandably, England's Catholics were shocked last week when Father Davis announced that after 20 years as a priest he was leaving the church. Compounding the shock, Davis, 43, also said that he intended to marry an American Catholic, Florence Henderson, 36, of Farmingdale, N.Y., a theology student at Bristol University. She, too, plans to leave...