Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most students found that they inhabited a much smaller world this spring than the one they had moved through the year before. The most intense perception of the nationwide strike had been the panic feeling after Kent State that we were all the enemy to the people who ran this country: Vietnamese peasants, black people, white students-all one free-fire zone to be eliminated when they made trouble. The shots fired at Kent and Jackson had hit all of us, and we had felt that we must move now or face total defeat...
Quiet Nonbelligerence. Washington was worried that the Russians might provide additional armaments not so much to bolster the Egyptians as to panic Israel into trying to wheedle additional arms out of the U.S., thereby throwing both the arms balance and the American peace effort out of kilter. Sure enough, in the wake of the treaty, Israeli Ambassador to Washington Yitzhak Rabin last week inquired into the status of an Israeli request for an additional $500 million in economic aid and military supplies. Washington has so far held back on approving the request. With some justification, Jerusalem fears that...
...campus, the reaction to the dearth of jobs ranges from nonchalance to panic to anger?an anger often directed at the colleges that trained the students to no seeming purpose. Some speak darkly about the creation of a new "intellectual proletariat...
...More Panic. For some men's libbers, a limited solution to their anxiety seems to lie in a partial retreat from women. Males, says a manifesto in Brother, must stop "salivating at the sight of women" and further develop their relationships with other men. Bob, a professor of philosophy at Portland State College, notes that in his group, the men have become close friends and now "touch each other more." Michael, more to the point, admits that at his meeting, "choking and gagging on the very word, we named the secret, shameful desire/ fear: brother-love, homosexuality...
...relatively few men in the movement are worried about or interested in homosexuality. Most of them believe that men's lib has strengthened their relationship with women, making them more sensitive to feminine feelings and easing the panic they experienced when their once-passive wives became active feminists...