Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last step in driving the people into the panic already possessing the souls of the professors has been to declare that, even if not bombed or invaded, America would be economically ruined by a Hitler dominated world. Is there any truth in this? Note the reply to this charge by three scholars who have managed to keep their heads! In the "Progressive" (August 9th) there appeared a report of a University of Chicago Round Table radio discussion of this subject, participarted in by Stuart Chase, noted author and economist, Dr. Peter Drucker, professor of economics at Sara Lawrence College...
...panic," queries Start Chase. No reason at all! The campaign for intervention, as led by the politicians and the professor, has all been based on senseless fear. There has been, and is now, no danger to this country in this war. That is, to our security as a nation and our integrity as a democracy! We are "impregnable" to attack, and need therefore only to stay out to be safe...
Meanwhile, through all this panic-y year, the students on the whole have remained sane and sober. Their level-headed composure has driven some of the professors into a veritable frenzy. They forget, these professors, that war is serious business for the young--that it wrecks their lives while the oldsters stay safely at home and continue uninterruptedly their careers. They forget also that the now generation have been disillusioned about war, while the old generation are still nursing the fantasies and fables in which they were reared years ago. But they are doing their best to break down...
...were promptly dubbed "Gluebottoms, because they ... do nothing but sit." >-The child evacuees ("Vackies") from the London slums "all wrote home to their parents to say that this place had been bombed to bits and that most of the children here have been killed." Result: a rush of their panic-stricken parents to take them away...
When Warren Delano lost his fortune in the panic of 1857, he left his home near Newburgh, N.Y., went back to China to recoup his wealth. Five years later he sent for his family. Sara was then a little girl. She went out to China on the clipper Surprise. They lived a year in crowded Hong Kong, traveled home by leisurely stages through Europe. In Berlin she spent one winter, studying at a private school. In Paris she spent another. Back in Newburgh, Sara Delano became a belle of the Hudson River Valley...