Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emotional engineering in the United States is causing hysteria and fear in the minds of the American people," Robert E. Gussner, Secretary of the northeastern division of the Fellowship of Reconciliation told a PBH audience last night...
...Yeatsian distress the Harvard community gazes anxiously at the widening gyre of its dramatic activities. With at least a dozen groups already formed and new ones blossoming each month, there is some ground for this mild hysteria. Opinions differ as to the nature of the problem--some say that acting talent is spread too thinly, other that there is not enough capital at hand--but the groups agree that the root of the trouble is dissipation of effort. Many feel that this dispersion can only be prevented by legislation...
...puzzle. The Princess bows to the Archbishop-but the churches are empty, and religion is in evident decline. Britain is the U.S.'s strongest ally against Communism-and yet many Britons still look on the Communist conspiracy as if it were largely a fiction of American "hysteria." Britain continues to embody the kind and courageous middle-class virtues -and yet a social landslide has brought to some a nagging despair, to others a kind of fatigued boredom...
...magnificent. The defendant's refusal to testify obviously disturbs him, yet he maintains a casual air throughout, with the result that he seems not only human, but typically Army. This effect arises naturally from the playwrights' lines, which have neither the sparkle of the drawing-room nor the hysteria of the melodrama, but flow along calmly, with occasional light touches in a vein that could be found in any Army office. Kennedy, however, makes these lines extremely effective by never appearing...
These questions were contained in a circular sent to 470 U.S. heart specialists by an organization called the American Research Foundation of Princeton, N.J. Last week the American Medical Association indignantly advised doctors what to do with the questionnaires: throw them in the wastebasket, "to prevent the hysteria that such information could foment...