Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this measure, it is true, many Democrats followed Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Scott Lueas of Illinois. That vote, however, was taken just before an election and just after the entrance of the United States into the Korean war. It was a time of hysteria, a time when few men dared risk their political careers. The President asked for a better law; his veto message was a calm explanation of what was actually needed. During this next Congress, when there are no elections iminent, Democrats will probably follow his request on such legislation. But the Republicans surely will...
Pointing out that these charges of treason--for that is what the Senator's charges amount to--are false will not stop a McCarthy. To shut him up, the nation must first put an end to the hysteria that has produced him. It must dam up the stream of unreasoning fear and worry which is now lapping at the base of so many minds. This is the fear that has found its expression in the silencing of teachers and television stars, of writers and speakers. It is the fear that censors a Lattimore and lets a McCarthy orate at will...
Sockol stated that "in time such as these, when widespread hysteria infringes upon the rights of minorities, it is essential that people realize the importance of maintaining an objective view. The only way this objectivity can be preserved . . . is if the minorities themselves are allowed to speak out. . . . If that end can be accomplished only by waiving the membership-list requirement, then we feel such action should be taken...
...read a condensation of Author Scully's hogwash on the so-called "flying saucers" in [another] magazine . . . I was thoroughly convinced at that time of the scientific unsoundness of his writing . . . Every person of intelligence should be indignant at the thought of anyone deliberately promoting national hysteria, based on the hallucinations of people who will swallow any fantasy thinly veiled in pseudo-scientific jargon...
...proposal appears meaningless in the light of the Selective Service regulation which requires a postponement of induction until the end of the academic term. The Council seems to have yielded to the hysteria of a few individuals in considering compulsory mid-term grades at this time...