Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is "no reason for us to panic" about the new states of Africa and Asia, a University expert on Far Eastern Affairs declared last night. Speaking at the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs, Besjamin I. Schwartz, professor of History and Government, predicted that "the emerging world is not one we will necessarily like, but it is one that we can live with...
Like the professor of The Blue Angel, Albinus, a middle-aged Berlin art dealer, is pudgy, pompous and naive, a kind of pachyderm in a panic whose downfall is chilling precisely because a sardonic hilarity bubbles continuously through the pathos. In the velvety darkness of a movie theater, Albinus (no last name) is hypnotized by the usherette's "pale, sulky, painfully beautiful face.'' Margot is one of the daughters of the poor who have learned the market quotations on fair white bodies. Albinus, respectably and dully married, is enthralled by her, not because she is earthy...
...Rhetoric and Oratory, considers himself primarily a poet, he has on several occasions turned to the dramatic medium. In the years just before MacLeish came to Cambridge for a year's stint (1938-39) as Curator of the Nieman Collection, he wrote three verse plays especially for radio: Panic (1935), Fall of the City (1936), and Air Raid...
Mark boarded a boat at Léopoldville for the long journey upcountry just as the flames of chaos had begun to spread through the new Congo nation. "It is purely and simply panic," he wrote home in early July. "I have passed seven boats headed downstream, all dangerously loaded with fleeing [Belgian] families. I am the only passenger headed into the interior-all alone on a 32-passenger steamer." He added: "I have had only friendly reactions from the Africans and anticipate no problems . . . They ask why there aren't Americans out here where they're needed...
...life last week, shriveled Sarah Harvey sat impassively beside her nurse, collapsing into sobs only when her son took the stand. But she stuck to her story that Mrs. Knight had been taken suddenly ill one night and died in agony before she could summon a doctor. In panic, said Mrs. Harvey, she had dragged the corpse into the closet; she had collected the money only because she feared she would be accused of murder if the death were discovered. The prosecution's case hung like a thread on the ligature around the mummy's neck...