Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are two obvious solutions to the problem. First, members of the Faculty might be made to devote their time exclusively to teaching. This suggestion arouses either panic or incredulous laughter whenever it is mentioned, and is in any case entirely impractical. If Harvard is to maintain its reputation the Faculty must continue to publish and win prizes. To this end they must be left to their laboratories, libraries, and presidential commissions...
...Panic Atmosphere...
...Time presses," declared Robert Hutchins in his opening address. "It is time to open a new conversation about the requirements of peace, on a level somewhere between apathy and panic -and this side of the irrelevance of propaganda...
Curiously, none of the colony's Red Chinese-owned banks was affected, a fact that led to rumors that Peking agents had done their bit to help the panic along. On the air, the Governor pointed out that the problem was not financial weakness but only a shortage of Hong Kong's local paper currency. To stem the run, the government ordered 5,000,000 British ? 1 notes flown from the Bank of England by chartered jet, imposed a temporary $17.50-a-day limit on cash withdrawals. With another ? 35 million in bank notes scheduled to be flown...
...performance as an almost clinical study of neurosis. She is inspiringly alienated, for that sturdy cliché dissolves into a rich flow of images that astonish the eye. At one moment, a street scene goes entirely grey-including a vendor, his cart, fruit and all. When Vitti awakes in panic at night to find a toy robot clacking around her glacially modern home as though it had a will of its own, the very walls become terrifying abstractions. And her fear of separateness is made subtly palpable on the quay where a mist isolates her from husband, lover and friends...