Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passing Panic. The paradoxes abound. Sandy is part American Midwesterner, part American bohemian. She is soft, cuddly, feminine-yet a blue-streak cusser and a four-letter woman. She looks like the idealized schoolteacher that boys remember falling in love with. Her skin is transparent. Her features, with one exception, are almost perfect. Her windswept hair is a lovely honey color...
...Example: "The Orchid Girl fades into memory picture on outhouse skin forgotten-Green Tony the last invisible shadow-Call the Old Doctor twice on last errand?-caught in the door of Panic, Mr. & Mrs. D.-last round over-a street boy's morning sky-flesh tape ebbing from centuries-Remember i was movie played you a long last goodnight...
...Barton. His father, an itinerant Congregationalist preacher before settling in an Oak Park, Ill, parish, raised his five children on the King James Bible. At 9, Barton was out delivering newspapers. He worked his way through Amherst by selling pots and pans, graduated in the midst of the 1907 panic and eventually turned to magazine writing and editing. A prolific contributor to such periodicals as Redbook and McCall's, he specialized in inspirational articles that were scorned by critics as simplistic pap but had enormous popular appeal...
...over-or that the Americans were not somehow rigging a trap to kill him. Repatriated to his village in Japan, where his father had erected a monument, Masashi found it impossible to shake off the instincts of the hunted animal. Every sound in the night awakens him in panic. "I understand well enough that there's not the slightest element of danger," Itō writes, "but my senses won't acknowledge this conclusion. Once it has taken hold, the jungle will not so easily...
...Antigone is in a prison cell and attempts to dictate a letter for Haemon, we are deeply moved by her momentary human lapse, "I don't even know what I'm dying for." Here Miss Tucci loses her poise and runs about the enclosure like a caged bird in panic. But when she finally exits to her death, she knows...yes, she knows...