Word: fright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contact with the enemy at all. South Viet Nam's army had always performed unevenly, yet at its best it had given a good account of itself after so long and terrible a war. But now a full six South Vietnamese divisions had simply dissolved in a cascade of fright after Thieu abruptly ordered a massive retreat without giving his commanders a chance to lay the complex plans necessary to keep such a risky military maneuver from turning into a rout...
Thereafter the mood darkens. A girl wing-walker literally dies of fright. A friend crashes while testing a new plane, and Waldo is permanently grounded for buzzing the crowd that gawks at the man's death by fire. In the end there is nothing left for Waldo but the ultimate commercialization of his love for his craft: stunt-flying in a Hollywood war movie. There, ironically, he finally gets his chance to fly against Kessler, and, by turning a fake dogfight into the real thing, to pass into legend himself...
...year she was in Collegium he made no efforts to bind the group. Her own efforts as a conductor are directed toward creating a rapport with her cast and orchestra. "I enjoy the leading." If she had to act or sing on stage, she says. "I'd get stage fright," but "when I come out to conduct and the spotlight is on me, I'm not scared...
...soliciting ideas from sharp critics as well as official advisers is admirable; the economy's woes are so complex that no idea for healing them should go ignored. But time for formulating a complete program is rapidly running out. As the stock-market collapse vividly illustrates, public fright and worry are themselves becoming a powerful economic force -and they feed on uncertainty...
...there in my civvies, staring at all those black and red costumes, I kept wondering if everything was hanging right," said Beverly Sills, confessing to stage fright. On an unfamiliar stage last week, the Brooklyn-born soprano became an honorary doctor of music in Harvard Yard, along with Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist. "It was much more nerve-racking than any performance," said Beverly. "Maybe I should have sung instead." Doctor Beverly joshed Husband and Harvard Alumnus Peter Greenough saying, "I'm a Harvard man just like the other Greenoughs." Then she referred to her son Bucky...