Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything. One military man in Buenos Aires predicts that clashes will break out on the Argentine-Chilean border within 15 months. A former Argentine foreign minister says that it is "absurd" to think that Allende will not attempt to "stir up subversion and revolution outside Chile." The near-panic in the Argentine junta is such that the generals are preparing a special amnesty which would allow Dictator Juan Perón to end his 15-year Madrid exile and return to Argentina. The generals' theory is that Catholic Peronismo, still strong among Argentina's working classes, would...
Greene was still thinking in terms of creeping brushfires. He packed his car with some clothes and paintings. His visitors drove the car down to Jamul. After 8 a.m., smoke turned the sky to midnight. In gathering panic, Greene walked, then ran down the road toward the town, dropping the large pendulum clock that he meant to save. "I fell down," Greene remembers. "I had a flashlight, but I still couldn't see a thing. Sparks were falling all around me. I got lost in the chaparral. Finally I found a water pipe and followed it down...
...sniper fire preceded the 61-shot National Guard fusillade that resulted in the death of four students. It also took Guard leaders to task for allowing Guardsmen to carry live ammunition on campus. In contrast to the police at Jackson, however, Guardsmen at Kent State were portrayed as panic-stricken, acting out of confusion and fear...
America began as a ritual of rebirth-the world's best publicized new beginning. Now the original American Dream is dying by bits and pieces, and that is our panic. Do the new rituals represent fumbling attempts to initiate a second beginning? Is all the writhing and the agony, all the violent self-division, the schizophrenia of an old self dying, a new self being born? Are we witnessing, at last, the erratic rites of America's coming of age? Of its coming to a self-awareness chastened by defeats into being more human? It is too ^soon...
...What is so severely lacking in our society that the assertion of an alternative life style throws so many Americans into panic and rage?" asks Slater. The warping may result from a frustration of deeply felt human needs by the unique framework of American culture...