Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intern marked the girl's chart "Possible 100% HY" (hysteria), noted "no abnormal reflexes, no response to painful stimuli," summoned an attendant to carry her to a sixth-floor ward...
...Boston, Rappaport contended, corruption has not been the basic issue. "Problems of the city lie far deeper than corrupt administration but, like communism, people have surrounded corruption with a sort of hysteria," he said...
This, Biddle's fourth major book, is an unsuccessful analysis, however. It fails to define what this overpowering fear is, it falls to show the true meaning of the "anti-subversive" laws, and it does not analyze the "hysteria." Instead, the book is a reportorial discussion of the effects of anti-subversive legislation and international anxiety...
Biddle contends that post-war hysteria has produced such bills as New York's Feingold Law, Maryland's Ober Law, and the McCarran Act ("A curious hodgepodge of unwise and unworkable provisions.") He praised President Truman for the Federal Loyalty Procedure...
...hysteria has had a stiffing effect on college teaching, Biddle reports. Only two college presidents have stood firm on the issue of communist teachers on the faculty, he holds, and they are President Conant and former University of Chicago head Robert M. Hutchins...