Word: contagions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...human tribunal ever conceived could try that case, with its clouds of witnesses, the surging contagion of its guilt. Yet the mind, squinting at the horror now that the tide of blood had washed back, naturally cast the evidence in the familiar and dreadful form of The Trial. The world, with one war still red under its nails and another beating in its belly, knew, more or less subconsciously, that it would have to build a prisoner's dock bigger than the subcontinent of India, that the crime was not contained by geography, and that the less the crime...
...another still by pure rumor, and another in retaliation for that and still another by rumor. The genius of India has ever been for myth, not rationality: and no man's reason may be expected to remain intact under the intricate chemistries of horror, heartbreak, revenge, the vertiginous contagion of mobs, a thousand years' collective, unconscious fertilization in allegiance to one faith and culture...
Meanwhile, astute commentators, noting the proximity of Radcliffe to the University and vice-versa, and the rash of colds among students at both institutions, were surmising on the possibilities of contagion. They predicted a spread to Wellesley by the end of the coming weekend...
Unhappy Children. Like most psychiatrists, Dr. Dunbar looks for the roots of psychosomatic illness in an unhappy childhood: "There is such a thing as emotional contagion. The youngest infant can be infected with fear or anger or disgust or horror even more easily than with the measles." Infected with such fears, he grows up unusually susceptible to disease and accidents (forms of escape or self-punishment...
...after the Dean had done with the preliminaries, he turned to the token sheepskin before him with a mind focused on other and larger things. Or maybe the doctor was disturbed by the contagion possibilities inherent in such a crowded gathering...