Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents as Communists. They have left the party but refuse to finger their friends and are sentenced to two years in prison. Finally, fed up with FBI "persecution" of the boy, the king decides to "sit it out in Europe," suggests as the film ends that the "hysteria" in the U.S. is a passing phase...
Duration of Stay: Indefinite, said Stern in Red Prague last week. The U.S. is caught up in "spy hysteria" to the point that "war budgets can be passed, disarmament conferences torpedoed and peaceful coexistence deferred." His exception was the U.S. Supreme Court, "one of the most liberal bodies in the U.S. in recent times." "We are visiting this peace-loving country," he said, "and we are enjoying an interesting and restful trip." Another announcement of the week, from Moscow: the U.S.S.R. next year will publish Martha Dodd's latest book, The Searching Light...
...every book on Negroes be banned from the university library. Others have kept up a running attack on Dean Robert J. Farley of the law school because he signed a document asking respect for the U.S. Supreme Court after its decisions against segregation. Worst of all, the anti-integration hysteria has become so pervasive that many students have become spies and informers for segregationists in the state, each keeping his own blacklist of suspects. "You can imagine," says one graduate student, "the frustration of those people who live in fear of being put on one of the lists. They spend...
Pittance for Peace. David Lawrence, who is also editor of U.S. News & World Report, roundly condemns the ''supposedly alert press" for the misinformation and "emotional antipathy to high taxes" that have stirred budget "hysteria." In the budget debate's first round, said Lawrence, the press generally misinterpreted or overplayed Treasury Secretary Humphrey's celebrated press conference warning of a depression "that will curl your hair" unless the 1958 budget were drastically reduced. Columnist Lawrence, after studying the press conference transcript, pointed out that too many news stories had failed to bring out that Humphrey was referring...
...last the spill was reported to the AEC, and a news item from Washington told the Houston papers. A wave of hysteria beat on the Kellogg plant and the people concerned with its accident. Friends of Mrs. Northway refused to ride to church in her car. Excitement increased when the Northway and McVey houses were vigorously decontaminated...