Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course there are still some people around who can't face the facts of life, and so they turn anxiously to Gloomy Gusses like Karl Earth and Reinhold Niebuhr as an escape. But their brand of revived Fundamentalism obviously will not survive the present wave of postwar hysteria. In general, it seems to me that modern man is slowly but surely waking up to the realization that in order to move forward towards a scientific and democratic civilization he must rely on intelligent faith in himself...
Upon Dwight Eisenhower converged all the frets, frustrations and fears of a suddenly fretful and frustrated people. His first duty was to stop the cries of hysteria. His second, and most important, responsibility was to re-examine the U.S. position in a world where space flight-whatever its immediate practical value- has temporarily become the enemy's exclusive capability...
...population vaccination will be too late to give protection against early attacks. By midwinter it may do more good. Some San Francisco doctors, however, declared the vaccine is only 50% effective. Shooting from the hip, they charged that the whole vaccination program was a piece of engineered hysteria to promote vaccine sales. Said Medical Society President Donald M. Campbell: "I'm giving vaccine only to relieve near-hysteria...
...straw-filled dummy used to hang a Negro in effigy was set afire. The demonstrators shrieked and shouted in near hysteria but gave way before National Guardsmen...
...scenes in the broadcasting studio, where the original sound man was back at his old Mars machines, but in trying to chronicle the reaction of different types of people in different situations, Night was forced to juggle more vignettes than it could handle, rarely managed to recapture the ensuing hysteria. Bogeyman Welles, who earned himself a national sponsor for his imagination, failed even to get a mention. Reason: Welles never acknowledged repeated CBS invitations to appear...