Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time of the Fire by Marc Brandel (Random House; $3) is a workmanlike portrait of a small American town and its mass hysteria under the terror of a homicidal maniac. The terror and hysteria rise to a high boil when the remains of local women are found neatly decapitated and expertly carved. Before the killer gets his comeuppance, the frigid daughter of one of the town's leading citizens thaws herself out, and town and townsmen are brought to naked life with considerable psychological insight...
...solitary, all-night vigil outside the Palace was given to the world. And [secretly] how we all envied her! To fasten herself with chains to the railings in case she was moved during the night, and then to suffer the disappointment of falling in a fit of hysteria at the sight of a Curtain being pulled open at one of the Palace Windows shortly before seven a.m.! We lived it with you, Mrs. Lightfoote. And you may be sure that the fruits and flowers now arriving daily at your bedside from all parts of Britain are but a small measure...
...retained it, like the sword Excalibur, if he could wrest it from the block and wield it." Presidential words carry great weight, said the ex-President, but they must be backed up by action: "Today there is the same need for a combination of words and action concerning the hysteria about Communism ... It is not the business of Congress to run the agencies of government ... A successful administration is one of strong presidential leadership. Weak leadership-or no leadership-produces failure, often disaster...
...three speakers on the subject: "Are We Losing Our Civil Liberties in the Search for Security?" Delaney told the audience it was to be congratulated for courageously attending the program in the midst of the current "hysteria." College students today are generally "too frightened to think" or to be seen at such a meeting, he declared...
...knowledge throughout the agency that something was up; T-men and FBI agents had made repeated visits, checked books, collected data. Finally, on Monday, April 12, the government acted: Guy T. Hollyday, chief of the FHA, was dismissed. The normally staid New York Times reached a pitch of near hysteria in reporting, "FHA Chief Out--Frauds Charged--U.S. Opens Study--Files to be Siezed." In an orgy of political moralizing, the press called up spectres of Minks. Deep-freezers and Teapot Dome...