Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still trying to follow the line, Anna snapped: "My expulsion may have been caused by the tension and war. hysteria which the American press has done so much to stir up." Tired and testy, she finally shut off discussion: "Nobody in Russia has mistreated me the way you reporters have tonight." But next day, after the special Grand Jury (which is investigating espionage in the U.S.) let her off after only 30 minutes of preliminary questioning, Anna warmed up a little. To reporters, she elaborated...
...such easy refuge awaits Frau K. She was conspicuous among those I saw; she carried no rucksack, she was well dressed, and her eyes bulged with fear edging on hysteria. She had traveled all day from a village north of Berlin where her husband is a physician. Dr. K., a Stalingrad prisoner, was released a year ago and soon resumed his old practice. The local MVD eyed his success and set their price. He was summoned and instructed to use his office as an intelligence center, to submit reports on all his patients, some of whom were suspected of being...
Freedom is also essential to the growth of science, Mather continued. While security is necessary in certain scientific research it is also important to make the distinction between free thought and disloyalty. Mather presented, as an example of the hysteria prevailing in the scientific world, the case of a lady scientist who was called upon to explain the presence of a Paul Robeson record album in her room...
...violence are being used against Communists and progressives. In the past few months there have been hundreds of small incidents such as the one that took place Wednesday night at Harvard. Civil liberties in the United States are in great danger as a result of the current anti-Communist hysteria...
...attack Wednesday night was a result of artificial hysteria. The University may feel that it is necessary to punish those students responsible; however, the HYD and Mr. Stocking desire nothing more in the way of punishment than that these students be made to recompense him for the damage they caused. We feel that what is much more important is that the University should make a public statement strongly condemning this attack and the hysteria that caused it. The University must reiterate its stand on the rights of undergraduate organizations. It must take a definite stand against the disruption of meetings...