Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas also said that the time has come for American liberals to take a positive stand against the present political hysteria, by energetic opposition of scare bills, and by testimony at legislative inquiries...
Donham added that the American political scene is in an equally had way because of the hysteria aroused by anti-Communist witch-hunts...
Although alert to the Red threat, the Australian people, in his opinion, show none of the hysteria Tipping finds in the United States. A constitutional amendment to outlaw the Communist Party was opposed by none other than Herbert Evatt, first president of the General Assembly. "Evatt risked political suicide by defending the Reds' rights, but the amendment was roundly defeated by the people...
...financial plight of universities, pointing out the ways in which income has fallen and costs have risen. Two contributors discuss student withdrawal from politics and threats to academic freedom respectively. Both articles contain interesting information, but are not too sharp on analysis. Professor William T. LaPrade's article on hysteria--the political, not the psychological, kind--reiterates the stand of the American Association of University Professors on the right to teach, but does not contain much new material...
...aspects of sports and boxing and you'll see what I mean. Seneca was one of the first to speak out against the combat of the gladiators. Isn't there possibly a parallel between the decadence of the declining Roman Empire and our own overemphasis on mass hysteria stimulated by some mass sports...