Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder that Brooks praised his old partner this week because Reiner always kept him "in a state of panic." Panic is the durable essence of Brooks' humor: the panic of being born into a world that demands us to "partake in social activities" rather than be privately ourselves...
...securities business. The firm about to go under was Goodbody & Co., whose 250,000 customer accounts make it the fifth biggest brokerage in the nation. The collapse of a company so huge seemed likely to frighten investors into withdrawing stock and cash from many other firms, triggering a panic...
...kidnapping threw Montreal into a panic. From Ottawa, External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp ordered armed guards posted at all foreign embassies and consulates; Canadian officials and prominent businessmen began themselves to live at home and travel only under heavy protection. After the passage of several "deadlines" for the meeting of the demands, Montreal radio broadcast the FLQ manifesto; but negotiations between the government and the FLQ's representative Robert Lemieux never got underway, and on the evening of October 10, the Chernier cell of the FLQ seized "the Minister of Unemployment and Exploitation," Laporte...
Glacier's Edge. Nothing so simple will make life appear normal to her author. In her fourth published volume of poems, Procedures for Underground, Atwood compresses to an even more tactile intensity the panic that beats through her novel. Others may see evolution as a reasonably deserved survival of the fittest. Her gift, and her curse, is to see the universe as one living creature that survives only by devouring parts of itself. Even the cord of an electric typewriter can seem organic-a "hungry plug drinking a sinister transfusion...
...thing is not to get people pushing the panic button-this should set everybody taking precautions," Lord said...