Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panic was caused by failure of the critical attitude in listeners. Allport stated. Skillful work by Welles made the material credible to listeners made insecure by the recent depression and the fear of Hitler's Germany. People believed with they hard and some saw just what the commentators were describing...
...says Chemist Jack De Ment, in The Military Engineer, is atomic duds. During a bombing attack, one city may be spared while other cities near by are heavily bombed. But into the heart of the untouched city, the enemy may drop a peculiar, ominous object to start a destructive panic...
...dummy bomb should cause the evacuation of the city, with casualties from panic and a long-lasting tie-up, the enemy would have won an extremely cheap victory. If he intended to invade the city, his paratroopers would find it undamaged, nonradioactive, and empty of both defenders and burdensome noncombatants. Enemy troops could move right in and help themselves to provisions in the abandoned stores...
...story in his best toastmaster style as the subject under scrutiny squirms alongside. For the premiere, Jessel took former Child Star Bobby Breen in hand, told how he climbed from cold-water flats to Hollywood fame, then became a has-been at 13, when his voice changed ("There was panic in the studio"). At show's end Bobby, now 26, sets foot on the comeback trail by singing a song (his voice has not changed much) and lowering his head to hide the tears as Jessel, with a philanthropic touch, reads off the list of nightclubs and TV shows...
...fiscal and political hotbed of Florence, where those hardy perennials, the Medici, first reared their brilliant heads. Item: he recites with delight how the fiscal-minded Florentines won a war against Venice and Naples by calling in so many loans that the rival cities were thrown into a financial panic. In spiritual things as well, Durant does a truer set on his subject than many a more academic historian. He catches gracefully "the integral spirit" of the age in aptly chosen quotations and lets the earthy irreverence of the era bubble up too, as it does in the credo...