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Word: panic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of deadline. But most of the intervening period disappears in a kind of anxious state of walking about. You cannot start until you know what you want to do, and you do not know what you want to do until you start. That is catch-23. Panic breaks that circle. Finally a certain force in the accumulated material begins to form a pattern. Most people think that you build a skeleton and then you know whether you are going to write a dog, a giraffe or whatever. What happens, in fact, is that you do a perfect little finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Ping Pong Philosopher | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...laid out "like a film scenario," and tosses it aside with the assurance that the author "must be an American." Bates is also able to supply some shading that the writing lacks. His face, as the film ends, begins to show the first traces of brutal emptiness and panic, as if he had been subjected to the kind of beating that leaves no scars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Touch of Class | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Nickerson was not born into wealth. His grandfather had been a successful businessman, but was destroyed in the Panic of 1893, and died as a result of it. In his richer days, he had built a castle in Dedham modeled on one he had seen on the Rhine in Germany...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Who It Is | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...company affiliates pumping on their lands? Is a lasting peace likely in the Middle East, or might renewed fighting lead to a reimposition of the Arab oil embargo? Despite all these puzzlers, top U.S. economists now agree on two conclusions: barring war or other disaster, the day of panic bids as high as $17 per bbl. for oil is over, and the direction of world prices is definitely down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: How Much Will Prices Drop? | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...Davidsons turned in convincing performances as Visigoths at the gates of suburbia. Easy Rider could not keep off the grass, and Evel Knievel, that star spangled Icarus of the carnival circuit, gives young minibike owners potentially lethal delusions of grandeur. But now, during the lull in the great gas panic of '74, comes a 46-year-old Minnesotan and writer of computer manuals, who makes the motorcycle not only respectable but also a focus of mental and spiritual health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Enormous Vrooom | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

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