Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estate brokers was denied. The association alleged on various grounds that their constitutional rights were being compromised by the city's fair-housing ordinance. The court thought otherwise, holding that a broker's license can be legitimately suspended if he is found either to have indulged in "panic peddling" (influencing whites to sell because a Negro has moved into the neighborhood) or to have failed to show a property for rent or sale to a potential customer because of his race, beliefs or nationality. In New York, a court held that discriminatory practices in violation of the open...
...faculty feel inferior and lose its sense of authority. How can you teach with any confidence, when you have to put your emotions as well as your knowledge on the line every day, or otherwise three-quarters of your class will be boning up in the library, and only panic-stricken dullards will be out there in front of you? No matter who succeeds Raynsword [Hutchins], Individualized Education has to go. And of course we'll have to bring back football...
Bicker is an ordeal that you have to be prepared to take. The sophomore committee sponsors panel discussions on the morality of it, the psychology of it, the history of it. Representatives come around to all the sophomores' room with advice: "Just act yourself now. Don't panic or anything. Don't try to be anyone you really aren't. Just act yourself and everything will be all right." The talk in Commons during the weeks before is always about Bicker--getting Bicker groups together, figuring out chances...
...whom in the man-woman relationship, can never be resolved. At first glance, Ruth seems exploited. The old man plans to use her for cooking and cleaning up, Lenny for his stable of tarts, and Joey for lovemaking. But after the agreement, the old man is invaded by sheer panic: "She'll use us, she'll make use of us, I can tell you! I can smell it!" Yet will she? Vivien Merchant ends her evocatively feminine performance with the elusive hint of a smile. The secret is as safe with her as with Mona Lisa...
...staged by her fairy godmother. The year was 1900, and Mary, Scotland-born and Chicago-reared, was an impoverished young soprano who haunted rehearsals at the Comique. Her moment came when, during a performance of Gustave Charpentier's Louise, the lead soprano suddenly collapsed after the second act. Panic-stricken, the director asked Mary if she could fill in. Though she had never sung on a stage before, much less with an orchestra, she pluckily replied: "Have no fear. I shall not fail." She hastily pinned her 98 lbs. into a costume several sizes too large and boldly stepped...