Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From earliest times, woman's womb and its workings have been grossly misunderstood. For centuries, the uterus was supposed to have an independent life and motility of its own. It was believed to be the cause of hysteria, which was derived from the Greek word for womb (varepo.). Even today, a "host of taboos, legends and mysteries" persist. So say two Salt Lake City psychiatrists in the current issue of GP (published by the American Academy of General Practice). According to Drs. C. H. Hardin Branch and David E. Reiser, "otherwise sophisticated and intelligent" women are extremely naive...
...weather"), but death is so close and horrifying that she cries: "I am too afraid to be sorry ... I want to be brave but I cannot." Feeling like an animal because she is always watched, Mary knows only two inescapable realities: prison and fear. Gradually her fear mounts to hysteria. She loses all control, screams in her sleep, abandons even vanity. Using lipstick would be indecent now, she thinks, "like painting the face of a corpse." In the end Mary cannot even think any more, and her execution, even to her executioners, seems meaningless and barbaric...
...some of his critics-the breed described by Old Socialist Norman Thomas as the liberals "who may be reluctantly persuaded that Alger Hiss is guilty, but never can forgive Whittaker Chambers." Rorty and Decter completely reject the hysterical view that the U.S. is in the grip of McCarthy-inspired hysteria, or that the man from Wisconsin is the American Hitler...
Brimstone & Hysteria. There was plenty to reform. The hill people are fond of a local liquor that approaches 200-proof, and their disregard for God's commandment against adultery makes Hollywood seem puritanical. Incest is common. "I know dozens of cousins who are living together," Jessie Hyde said recently. "I know men who stay with their aunts and girls who stay with their uncles...
Another element equally important is the courage of one's own convictions. Not only a person, but also a university, must have this courage if it will be great. In a time of hysteria, there can be no surrender to the fear and to those who cause...