Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Horror, revulsion, panic overwhelm everyone who witnesses the climax of Jaws. Yet people have paid more than $150 million for the experience. Why? Why in a world menaced by drug epidemics, official corruption, political assassination, terrorist armies, atomic holocaust and pay toilets do human beings feel a longing to be scared out of their skins? What is this perverse allure of the horrible that in all ages and nations has made men sit at the feet of the taleteller who can summon adrenalin with shadow dangers...
...Russians skate as a five-man unit, working the puck into the slot in front of the goal rather than taking low-percentage outside shots. According to Shero, they also "like to overload a zone, throwing four men on one side, gambling that you'll panic and throw the puck away." Shero claims that use of one particular Russian practice technique-skating out of the corner to beat the goalie at close range -gave the Flyers 40 goals last year. Says he: "We won the cup with...
...Verdict Knef deals just as effectively with the panic of being sick in a modern hospital. Emerging from anaesthesia, she hears herself being discussed by attendants: "Would you recognize her? I mean, the way you know her from TV?" There is the blinding need for painkillers. "I'm not allowed to give you anything" is the standard reply. "My bed is standing in the middle of the room," writes Knef. "It didn't quite make it to the wall. My room in hell has been lifted out of time, hordes of starving rats are gnawing at my belly...
...might destroy their newly-won unity with time and space or expose them to the fear of death--and of killing. Such a consolidation along technological lines is, I submit, now taking place. [in it]...the technologically possible may replace the ethically permissible....and this can only cause subliminal panic, especially where the old decencies will prove inadequate, and where the mere possibility of overkill can be denied only with a mental strain which will match the sexual repression of the passing era in unconscious pathogenic power. (Toward the Year 2000; Bell, editor...
...Downward mobility" seldom occurs voluntarily now nationwide. A "subliminal panic" shot through the middle classes after Kent State, and again when thermostats dropped and gas lines formed in the early morning darkness; today many students are unapologetically out for themselves alone. Especially telling are the rise of guru- and pseudo-liberation fads in the wake of the earlier protest's defeat, and of "decadence" at schools like Yale, where leaves of absence are at an all-time low; they signal most vividly a spiralling-off of individuals into private worlds within a corporate universe...