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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men (1937), a play by John Steinbeck. [Music Box Theatre, 207 perf.; NYDCC Award.] Farm laborer Lennie ( Broderick Crawford) is a loving but infantile giant who has often killed pets accidentally with his crushing embrace. His buddy and fellow migrant worker, George ( Wallace Ford),... Read more |
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Panic disorder
Panic disorder Definition Panic disorder is a condition in which the person with the disorder suffers recurrent panic attacks. Panic attacks are sudden attacks that are not caused by a substance (like caffeine), medication, or by a medical condition (like high blood... Read more |
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panic
panic crisis in financial and economic conditions, marked by public loss of confidence in the financial structure. Panics are characterized by a general rush of investors to convert their assets into cash, with runs on banks and a rapid fall of the securities market. Bank failures and bankruptcies... Read more |
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Panics
Panics BIBLIOGRAPHY Panics are social-psychological reactions to fear. Financial panics occur when investors react to the fear of capital losses by dumping assets, thus causing the collapse of a financial institution or financial market. Moral panics, as Stanley Cohen (1972) coined the term,... Read more |
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Panic of 1819
BANK WAR President Andrew Jackson's (1829–37) struggle against the Second Bank of the United States, known as the "Bank War," was the major national financial issue during his tenure in office. The Second Bank's policies were blamed for starting the economic crisis known as the Panic of... Read more |
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Black Monday
Black Monday Oct. 19, 1987, in U.S. history, day of financial panic. The Dow Jones Average fell 508.32 points, a drop of 22.6%, the largest since 1914. The point decline as well as the volume, 604.33 million shares, exceeded previous records. Among the possible causes were investors' anxiety... Read more |
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Zeppelin raids
Zeppelin raids. The first air raid on Britain by German airships took place in January 1915. In theory the Zeppelin attacks were directed against naval and military targets. In reality, poor weather, limited night-time visibility, and frequent navigation errors meant that they dropped their bombs... Read more |
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Native Son
Native Son (1941), a play by Paul Green and Richard Wright. [St. James Theatre, 114 perf.] Bigger Thomas ( Canada Lee) is an African‐American youth with a long record of trouble. He has grown up both frightened by and hateful of the white society he knows he is not a part of. Despite his... Read more |
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Panic of 1893
Panic of 1893 Source Crisis.The depression that occurred in the United States in 1893 was the worst in the nation’s history. As the economy became more integrated and centralized, fewer businesses and workers operated outside the influence of national markets and... Read more |
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Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia Definition Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by intense fear related to being in situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing (i.e., being on a bus or train), or in which help might not be available in the event of a ... Read more |
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