Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kinzel believes that such a circle exists, and that merely to invade it can induce, in violent men, a panic that swiftly expands into irrational assault. In the room at Springfield, he has tested his theory on a group of prisoners, some known to be violent, others tractable. On the average, the violent subjects stopped him at a distance of three feet, and showed markedly increasing tension and hostility as the circle shrank. The nonviolent subjects let him approach to half that distance. Moreover, the two areas of insulating space differed radically in shape. That of the violent prisoners bulged...
Planned Hibernation. Though Williams' first professionally produced play was titled Battle of Angels, he and his heroes have more frequently and more valiantly battled with the devils of dread, insecurity and panic. In the past, Williams could cast out those demons with the daemon of his art. He could control his craft with poetic precision, and the battle erupted in blazingly memorable scenes and plays. With In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel he has been invaded by his fears, and the battle of existence has become a forlorn lost cause...
Take, for example, the last couple of reels of a minor Ford film, Prisoner of Shark Island (1936). Dr. Mudd, unjustly imprisoned on an American Devil's Island, is recruited to stop a Yellow Fever epidemic. He must rally the panic-stricken soldiers, who are shown to us initially in rapid montage of richly lit terrified faces (a characteristic Ford device seen in Four Men and a Prayer, The Fugitive, The Sun Shines Bright and other films, and an example of Eisensteinian Classicism). Next he airs out the sick ward as a windstorm accompanied by lightning flashes begins (expressionism...
Unequivocal Decision. As the flood of funds into Germany grew to $3 billion by some estimates, near panic swept European currency markets. Present arrangements call for each Western government to keep the official price of its money within 1% of its stated value. In an effort to hold the line, Denmark and Norway suspended all dealings in foreign money. France, Britain, Italy, Belgium and other countries were forced to dip into their reserves and sell dollars to maintain the official price of their own currencies. Despite all this, in stunning defiance of the world's financial experts, West Germany...
...Panic was their principal symptom. It is not hard to see why. In the wolf-pack society of the cattle and mining towns where most of the man-killers hung their Stetsons, the gunfighter was top dog and therefore fair game for every pup that put metal on his leg. Inevitably, the hot shots became permanently over-adrenalized. In addition to a brace of hog-legs, anxious brawlers carried as many as four "stingy guns" concealed in their clothing. Even the great Wyatt Earp grew so tense, one story goes, that his bowels refused to move properly for a year...