Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panic Response. The thesis linking the twelve articles is that promise outran performance in the Great Society and obscured the real progress that was being made. The poor were receiving more public help than ever before; yet as their incomes were rising, so were the goals set by the Great Society's engineers. The poor were given money or in-kind benefits like food stamps, but that was not good enough. They were expected to show rapid improvement in school, in their health, in their ability to find jobs. It was a nearly Utopian prescription, and when the programs...
...Charles V. Hamilton, professor of government at Columbia University, argues that the crises of the '60s invariably passed through the same phases. First there was mild protest from a part of the public, then a mild response from the Government. This was followed by escalated protest, then a panic response. Once the panic had passed, there was a revulsion against whatever concessions had been made or promised. As Hamilton sees it, this pattern of behavior contributed to the polarization of the '60s and discouraged conciliation...
...examination time, and the student realized that he had totally neglected one course. Worse yet, he did not even know where the exam was to be held. Panic engulfed him-and then he awoke. It was all a dream, but it was a dream that he had sweated out repeatedly after his graduation in 1940, E.C.K. Read wrote in the letters column of Harvard Magazine last August...
...action scene has been as big for the people under 30 in the city since the Woodwarding heyday in 1968. From the look of the line outside the movie you'd think David Bowie was playing. It is an audience of dudes, every kind of dude come to panic in Detroit. You see sparkle shirts next to stretch pants, zoot suits and bodysuits, spangles and sequins and satins, conks and greaser crowns, bouffants and bubbles and blond-wigged blacks and silver-sprayed Afros, tranvestites and Amazons. The action is not in getting into the movie as much...
William R. Corson, the newest recruit, stands in curious contrast to his brethren. A retired Marine Corps colonel-a veteran of World War II, Korea, Viet Nam and duties with the CIA - he is a clean-shaven, shorthair type. His level stare could still panic any ex-G.I. who meets him with shoes unpolished. But Corson's bill of particulars against the republic is far from novel. In fact, it is sobering to recognize how closely his analysis resembles that of the New Left six or seven years ago, minus the hysterical rhetoric...