Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gracious Loser. In effect, Benn had been moved neither up nor down but sideways. As Energy Minister, he will preside over the development of North Sea Oil, the only bright spot in Britain's otherwise cloudy economic future. Lest the oil companies panic, however, Wilson made it clear that Benn will have little hand in the delicate licensing negotiations the government is now conducting with them...
...theaters this week, is part of a bracing revival of high adventure films and thrillers over the past few months (see box page 44). It is expensive ($8 million), elaborate, technically intricate and wonderfully crafted, a movie whose every shock is a devastating surprise. Like Earthquake, it takes a panic-producing disaster and shows how a representative cross section of humanity responds to it. Like The Exorcist, it deals with an essentially unknowable, therefore unpredictable and thoroughly spooky symbol of evil. Jaws promises to hit right in the old collective unconscious and to draw millions irresistibly to the box office...
Someone told me that PANIC consisted of one thirtyish black guy who worked in the public library music room, so when I'd waited for half an hour or so and the cops agreed that the demonstrators probably weren't coming--"they must have gone to the beach," one cop said scornfully--I went over to the library to see of I'd got the date wrong, or something...
...Explains John Buckley, placement director at New York University: "They go to graduate school because they don't have a $12,000-a-year job and they hope the economy will turn." Some students suffer deeply, however, when they are turned down for graduate work. "A state of panic seems to hit them," says Anthena Constantine, placement director at Columbia. Indeed, the odds for graduate-school admission can be frightening. Columbia, for example, had 5,000 applications for 300 places in its law school, 5,000 applications for 147 seats in medical school, and 2,250 applications...
...Portuguese Angolans were just as fragmented: many were staying because they had no place to go and owned only their homes; others were panic-stricken at the prospect of independence and left. Two passenger ships which called at Luanda almost empty August 24 and September 2 each left carrying 800 passengers over capacity. During those ten days, trucks and vans crammed with luggage and household goods formed a line which snaked over a mile back into the city from the docks...