Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a certain amount of football hysteria around the U. during the season. In one case, after the Purdue upset a three-day holiday was declared. Drinking is not permitted on campus, but an air of celebration pervaded nonetheless...
Frank Purcell was willing. But his wife, who seemed on the verge of hysteria, could not bring herself to consent. "It looks like it's more than I can bear," she said, absently wiping away tears. "I don't know. I don't know. I've got to leave it to the Lord...
...things have happened in the past few years in the ideological scene." He is very close to the truth, but the main change, as far as this country is concerned, is in the treatment, rather than the content of ideologies. Universities have been succumbing to the present hysteria against anyone who happens to be unorthodox in his opinions; there is danger that they will soon become entirely rigid as far as ideologies are concerned...
Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, stated that the major American social invention of this century was the emphasis on "growth from within" in education. But at the same time, he asserted, there have been continual onslaughts against the ideas of democracy by forces of dictatorship and hysteria...
This time they were wrong-dead wrong. They thought that by turning out all the lights they would create panic, chaos, widespread hysteria. Instead they played right into the hands of the people. Mild-mannered, respectable citizens were able to let themselves go for the first time since V-J day, to go out and do the things they always wanted to do. The little man was able to park his car in front of a meter and keep his pennies; he was able to punch that windbag who lives upstairs right in the mush without fear of retribution...