Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Using American universities as an example, Zimmerman stated, "The Universities of this country are now in a critical period. In Europe, to a considerable extent, the professors must play up entirely to popular sentiment. Slowly but surely this dominion of mass psychology, with its foibles and hysteria, is gaining a foothold in American universities...
...strange case. John Bellinger was dissatisfied with his status as a dishwasher, they said, and he felt in his unconscious mind that he could not face the world, so he turned his back on it, attempted to retreat into a happy past. He had a simple case of hysteria, much milder than that of many sensitive persons who suddenly become blind or paralyzed when faced with an intolerable situation. Dr. Stapleton began to investigate Bellinger's "life activities from birth to the present," prepared to discuss Bellinger's conflicts with him, hoped to "reeducate him regarding a more...
...half a century, and more than any other career in history it proved the power and privileges of a free press. No other press lord ever wielded his power with less sense of responsibility; no other press ever matched the Hearst press for flamboyance, perversity and incitement of mass hysteria. Hearst never believed in anything much, not even Hearst, and his appeal was not to men's minds but to those infantile emotions which he never conquered in himself: arrogance, hatred, frustration, fear. But while Hearst dragged his readers vicariously through every depravity from jingoism to sex murder...
Cafe-Society (Paramount). Within the last decade, a variety of influences, including Repeal, Depression, the servant problem and congenital hysteria, have caused one faction in Manhattan's insecure aristocracy of wealth to spend their evenings in public restaurants rather than their homes. As a group, this faction got itself labeled Cafe Society. Top chroniclers of Manhattan society are "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Maury Paul), $50,000-a-year oldtime smart-setter for the New York Journal and American, and Lucius Beebe who writes a weekly column for the New York Herald Tribune...
Anyone daring to suggest that the German army, perhaps the best disciplined in the world at that time, did not spend all its time committing atrocities was of course "pro-German." Such courageous men as Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, who tried to remain clear-sighted in the face of hysteria, who protested America's entry into the War, were, naturally, traitors-though history has proved them right and proved the rest of us a gullible group of limp-wits, victims of the most obvious propaganda...