Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time's destructive logic." Brandon tacitly admits that he has some trouble juggling his Christian faith and his academic findings. "My findings as a professor lead me to recognize certain things," he says, "and if these clash with my views as an Anglican then I must not panic but evaluate them properly, balancing one side against the other. I believe we have inherited a form of Christianity which one may well question as to whether it was original, and whether it has developed on the right lines...
...swings a vicious right to Polino's jaw. The muscular assistant trainer staggers, spits out a mouthful of teeth, backs off and grabs a golf club to defend himself. Liston draws a gun. Bang! Bang! A red stain spreads slowly where Polino clutches his chest. Sportswriters flee in panic; one newsman from Baltimore cowers behind the fireplace. The TV producer faints dead away...
...faces, especially Tresh, prevented New York from slipping too far behind when their great stars like Mantle were injured. Manager Ralph Houk refused to panic when his team ran into heavy weather in May and June. Drawing on the most impressive bench in baseball, he effectively platooned in the outfield Johnny Blanchard, Jack Reed, Hector Lopz and Yogi Berra, and the Yankees never fell beyond striking distance of the league lead...
...reason for this, suggests Investors Diversified Services Vice President Donald E. Meads, is that the principal customers of the funds are "grass roots people. They don't have ticker tapes running through their living rooms, so they are less likely to get swept up in panic." And George Whitney, a trustee of Massachusetts Investors Trust, believes that in the long run Blue Monday may have the same effect on the funds as the 1937 downturn -which produced a 13% sales gain for M.I.T. If nothing else, however, the post-crash performance of the mutuals should serve as a reminder...
...much is fine storytelling; the remainder is an ironist's art. The viewpoint abruptly shifts to that of the new men. In their log boats, they are fleeing in panic from the terrors of the dark forests and the strange, hairy creatures whom they had, all unwittingly, already exterminated for all history. One of them works on a piece of ivory, grinding it to a point with a stone, and wonders why he bothers: "Who would sharpen a point against the darkness of the world?" he thinks...