Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could taste snot in my mouth." For some there was an irritating sense of disconnection, a feeling that while their pasts were being microscopically examined, they were wasting their present lives and shortchanging their futures. "Once someone gave me a CRIMSON," one boy said, "and I was panic-stricken at the thought of all the time I was losing and all the things I was missing...
Only in A Place Apart by Wendy Perron was a choreographer successful in sculpting beautiful, interrelated movements: this at moments was a kind of graphic art. At moments too. Whittaker Sheppard's sketch of death, Incident at Dusk, communicated a horror and panic that was intended. Despite her confusion of narcissism with self-discovery, Lisa Nelson alone moved away from the dramatic toward the kine-esthetic, and she worked her cumulative effect, instead of striving for profoundity with each gesture...
...L.B.J., he seemed less than panic-stricken. Whoever the Democratic candidate may be in 1968, said the President with supreme self-confidence, "I fully intend to support...
While most parents sigh that "there but for the grace of God go I," the press now daily inflates incidents suggesting that hell hath no fury like a scornful child. In panic, some weak parents suddenly fight dirty, for example, having a child arrested after they find pot in his room. Equally destructive are those so worried about their own status that they hush up serious misconduct and bribe miscreants with new cars. Still others incredibly flee on vacation, leaving their kids to stage monster open-house parties. Then there are swinging parents, who even try LSD with the kids...
...country where the unpredictable is commonplace and panic constantly threatens, any progress at all is remarkable. Despite its recent mercenary uprising and new rounds of racial violence and pillaging, the Congo has cause for hope. Last week, as the country marked the second anniversary of the army coup that overthrew Joseph Kasavubu in 1965, the mercenaries who have plagued it for years were in neighboring Rwanda, waiting with their suitcases and women for a one-way ticket out of Africa. Moreover, President Joseph Mobutu can claim credit for a lot more than driving out the "meres." In his two years...