Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face of the disaster. One woman charged that she found a Greek crewman looting her cabin when she went to get her life jacket, and another claimed that a sailor had made a pass at her. Undoubtedly, many of the accusations were the result of passenger terror and hysteria and the fact that few of the crew spoke English, thus causing their intentions to be misconstrued. But it was evident that the fire-fighting procedures were inadequate and that many of the lifeboats had been lowered in panic with only crewmen aboard, leaving the passengers to fend for themselves...
...Gross, who, amid all the hysteria and the breast-beating, had the moral courage to ask his cohorts in the House of Representatives who was going to pay the tab for the eternal flame in Arlington...
...reason, theoretical a week ago, now will be shared by all: it is that the American government of men by laws administered by men transcends all those who animate it. Because the people do accept this reason, the lives we led, we lead still. The country suffers sadness, not hysteria; tragedy, not chaos. For that, one can be grateful...
...from being scandalously permissive, Harvard's parietal rules are about average--or perhaps a bit on the restrictive side--for colleges of its type. The reason the current hysteria over parietals erupted at Harvard, rather than at Princeton or Dartmouth or M.I.T., is to be found not in the length of the hours but in the attitude of the Deans...
...scene of the hysteria in Wheeler's Soprano is the living room of the Smith's bourgeois home in the suburbs (Ionesco's Soprano originally exploded in a British parlor). On the left hand side of Don Berry's spare and perfectly appropriate set, Mr. Smith (Jerry Gershman) digests the evening newspaper, while on the right Mrs. Smith (Jo Lane) thinks over the dinner they may or may not have eaten--it never becomes clear which...