Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S Essay is, once one has circumnavigated the semantics, a somewhat querulous defense against attacks upon your medium by the rudely righteous right (known to themselves as the practically perfect patriots). Don't panic, TIME. Your magazine will still be on the newsstands when people again say: "Spiro T. who?" In the meantime, you should adopt the attitude of the Geological Journal, which doesn't become the least bit upset when someone says it is a Commie rag because it maintains that the world is round...
...submits to authority. Freud himself had a particular fear of traveling (known as Reisefieber) and usually showed up at railroad stations too early. The underlying reason, according to his biographer. Analyst Ernest Jones, was that Freud feared losing his home and ultimately his mother's breast-a "panic of starvation, which must have been in its turn a reaction to some infantile greed." Poor Freud! What would he have done if he had had to while away his anxieties in an airline terminal, listening to tinned music and scratchy announcements of flight cancellations? Analysis might never have progressed past...
...Panic. Ever since the Nixon Administration announced its Vietnamization and withdrawal program two years ago, the nightmare of U.S. commanders has been that the enemy would wait until American troops are reduced to a level of combat ineffectiveness and then launch a major offensive against the exposed ARVN forces. The unusual activity of the Communists, together with fresh evidence that they are currently recruiting extra manpower in North Viet Nam, hints at such a plan. They might even decide to come straight down through the DMZ. When? Politically, the ideal time could be somewhere between October, when Saigon holds...
...where have all the dollars gone? They have fled to the august past. It is apparently easier to sell a painting for $250,000 than for $2,500. But what would the vitriolic old curmudgeon Edgar Degas-who prophetically remarked that there are some kinds of success indistinguishable from panic-make of the $530,000 paid for one of his pastels at Parke-Bernet last May? How would the impoverished Van Gogh have greeted the news that 80 years after his death his later oils would routinely go for anything between $250,000 and $1,000,000 to exactly...
...Building sit-in came, and some went and took risks and were arrested or clubbed for trying to stop a monstrous war. But most didn't, and most found it hard to understand those who had, because a new fear had crept into all of us, a panic quite unlike the panic of last May, and a lot of us were worrying about it all the time...