Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South-including, for the first time, "Klansladies" -and seems to be growing rapidly. This represents a substantial rebuilding job since the low point in 1958, when an angry group of armed Lumbee Indians whooped into a Klan rally in Robeson County, N.C., sent some 75 Klansmen fleeing in panic. Chief rebuilder has been Shelton, a tire salesman who emerged from a bitter 1961 split in leadership of the old Klan to head the new United Klans of America...
...highly improbable" unless "confirmed madmen" were in charge, Ailleret, a veteran infantryman, argues that it would take only a few nuclear strikes, "cleverly applied," to reduce the enemy to terror. Then, he reasons, "a rapid and brutal invasion by mechanized forces" would cause the enemy to "collapse through panic." Ailleret does not say flatly which side would panic first in such a war, but concludes confidently that victory would go to the government that is "capable of assuring the nation, through a sufficiently solid framework, of a stability that will permit its nerves to hold as long as possible." Meaning...
...This familiar story failed in Sophie (about Sophie Tucker) and Jennie (about Laurette Taylor), but it is surprisingly successful in Funny Girl. The difference is partly that Barbra Streisand's Fanny Brice is driven by the heat of desire rather than the cold of ambition, has spasms of panic as well as mountains of spunk. The usual standbys are unusually appealing. Kay Medford's stage mother is more loving than shoving, and her chopped-liver-on-wry dialogue is a deadpan delight. And Danny Meehan, as Fanny's unrequited lover and faithful friend, makes a dreary role...
Sale of the paper marks the end for Thomas More Storke of his cherished vision of founding a newspaper dynasty. Storke's father, who had founded the Los Angeles Herald only to be squeezed out a few months later by the panic of 1873, wrote signed editorial columns for the Santa Barbara paper until his death in 1936. Storke's son Charles, now 52, joined the News-Press in 1932, and he was clearly heir apparent. (Another son has been a lifelong invalid.) But Charles got impatient; the old man simply refused to retire. Besides, Charles...
...academic routine. "I didn't come here to be a scholar," he says. Assigned to a large parish in Syracuse, where he calls himself "a man with something to sell," Peale clashes with board members about an advertising campaign ("Lost your gal? In a lurch? Don't panic, pal. Go to church."). Ere long, thanks to "God's most potent chemistry," he meets and marries a spirited co-ed named Ruth (Diana Hyland). He is then summoned to Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, where he wins a huge following and prepares his first book, inspired...