Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Jews. In Israel, the outburst of emotionalism, as far as one can judge from outside, has a basis in reality. It wells from the hidden springs of a disillusioned people who were promised security and peace and find themselves in a war trap. The American-Jewish brand of hysteria is entirely without roots in the realities of American-Jewish life. It is completely artificial, manufactured by the Zionist leaders, and almost mechanically foisted on a people who have no cause for hysteria by an army of paid propagandists as a means of advancing a policy of avowed political pressure...
...very thirsty," whispered Mavis when a doctor finally arrived. Taken to a hospital, Mavis began to show signs of recovery. She had been the victim of "some form of hysteria," the doctor said. This explanation was repeated around the native location, but got nowhere among the crowds groaning and throwing bones to ward off the evil spirit...
...knee and thumps the stage; his hairdo collapses; he begins to get his teeth almost literally into his material, worrying the lyrics like a terrier with an old boot, biting off the sugary phrases as if they were sticks of seaside rock. In an atmosphere of rising hysteria, the screams mount, the band blasts. Those who would like to leave dare not, for fear of lynching...
Holding the play together from beginning to end was Royall Tyler's performance as Hugo--the young intellectual revolutionary. Tyler, more than any of the members of the cast, brought his part to life. The confusion, frustration, and near hysteria of Hugo until his final understanding are implicit in his gesture and intonation throughout, and it is fair to say that he largely carries the production...
...probable, of course, that there will be lax enforcement of laws passed during the period--at least while international tensions remain at their present low cbb. But if McCarthyism was an unfortunate product of Cold War fears, what is to prevent the same hysteria from reappearing with a toughening of the Soviet line? The Landys and the Ladijinskys may get their commissions and keep their jobs now, but would they be so fortunate if the Cold Peace were once again the Cold War? Clearly, more than the Geneva spirit is needed to safeguard the rights and liberties so recently attacked...