Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, jets from London, Paris, Rome, Washington, Los Angeles and Garden City, Kans., flew in the guests.* All day before the ball, fashionable East Side hairdressers fought off nervous breakdowns, and the 16 hosts and hostesses who had volunteered to give pre-ball dinners simmered on the verge of hysteria. Capote and Kay Graham had a quiet little "bird and bottle" picnic supper in his Plaza suite. As the hour for the party approached, Capote's chums became as anxious as he. Said Mrs. Leland Hayward: "We're so dearly fond of Truman, and we were afraid that...
...opposition Colman has in mind is undefeated Harvard, rolling into New Jersey atop a wave of polite hysteria over the prospect of an underfeated season. But what the Crimson has to worry about is that Princeton has finally recovered from an epidemic of injuries that turned it into an ambulatory patient for the first part of the year...
...London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square), stood nightly rooftop vigil as a volunteer fire warden. Eventually, he worked himself up to division manager, "hating every minute of it" except for his rounds to the store's hairdressing salon, where, he recalls dryly, "the atmosphere of hysteria reminded me of opera...
...drama festival in Scotland, tailored after the Salzburg Festival. He launched the Edinburgh Festival in 1947, and overnight it became one of the biggest and most successful arts pageants anywhere in the world. The master manager and logistician also became adept at dealing with the peculiar brand of hysteria that so often swirls within musicians' souls. Once an Italian orchestra threatened a walkout because there were no coat hangers in the dressing rooms. Bing merely explained that the Scots have this quaint old custom of hanging their coats on the backs of chairs. Accordingly, when one is in Rome...
...Korean who has lived through WW II, the current events in Red China [Sept. 2] are too vividly reminiscent of the prewar hysteria in Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. Both regimes sought scapegoats in what were considered to be foreign elements in their cultural, economic, religious and racial framework, and sought to justify their war effort as a national crusade against them. If the current frenzy in Red China is indeed the sign of a country preparing for war, God help...