Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoyed mixing with the others in the high-ceilinged day rooms, comparing problems, reading or just listening to the radio. (There is no TV; the doctors doubt that it would help.) Beneath the surface, things were not quite so smooth. Her psychiatrist diagnosed Emma's case as hysteria; she was an immature personality who playacted in real life and shut out problems by simply pretending that they did not exist, especially in regard...
Such a one was Lola Montez, the notable 19th century hussy, whose beauty and calculated hysteria drove strong men mad -particularly King Ludwig I of Bavaria. * During her life, women were oddly immune to her power. The victims were the gentlemen of Berlin, Paris, London and New York whose heaving breasts and creaking shirt fronts provided the obbligato for her "abandoned" dancing. But now that Lola is safely buried these 94 years in Brooklyn, the ladies, especially the lady writers, have been taken over...
...them. And this is especially refreshing at a time when so many otherwise well-intentioned and well-informed publications are cajoled or cowed into confusion on the Arab-Israel issue. So congratulations for your courageous reprinting of the little Jewish Newsletter's editorial exposing Zionist hysteria...
Dropped because they are outmoded are another 500 items. Mostly herbals, these included cypripedium (lady's slipper), once used as a sedative in hysteria and neuralgia; diabetes weed, and corn smut (derived from a fungus), which stimulated uterine contractions in childbirth. Carried over from edition to edition, of course: quack grass...
...concert stage Oistrakh appears with the small gold emblem of the Stalin Prize in the lapel of his well-tailored tails, and in 1951 he wrote an anti-American article in the Soviet review New Times about the "climate of bellicose hysteria that the American propaganda seeks to impose." (Today he half apologizes for the article by pointing to all the nasty things the Western press has said about Russia.) Oistrakh seems to enjoy a large degree of independence from the usual restrictions on junketing Russians. Getting interested in a conversation with a Western friend in a cafe...