Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mitchell stuck with the party through the hysteria of the McCarthy years. "Sometimes it was a little hard finding a job," she said, half in jest, half in anger, "and the FBI followed us around all the time. We couldn't do party work in the open." She had to testify before the House Un-American Affairs Committee, and many of her close friends went to jail...
Anti-Dubcek Factions. Once again, the Czechoslovak leaders returned from Moscow beaten men, committed to imposing a fresh series of repressive measures on their people. For a short time Dubček, who was reportedly in a state of near hysteria, considered quitting his post. But after a couple of days of recuperation, he and the others regained much of their spirit. Premier Oldrich Cernik, who had been in Moscow, implored Czechoslovaks to refrain from wry, between-the-line digs at the Soviets, adding in colloquial Czech: "What about some expressions of friendship, boys?" Similarly, Dubček conceded...
...girdle. And the charge itself is almost entirely successful. The rigid troops move forward like wind-up toy soldiers, under the hypnotic spell of unquestioned tradition. The firing begins; the hoofs and bodies and blood combine. Screams and guns seem to reach beyond the screen. The hysteria and terror are as palpable as dust; the slaughter is a testament to the inanity of blind obedience. By itself, the scene is confused and intense. It is harrowing, and it is magnificent. But it does not make a movie...
Most of the Living Theater's pieces are exercises in the manipulation of crowd emotions. Whatever does not actively irritate is designed to produce a kind of mesmeric communal hysteria. One piece finds Julian Beck sitting cross-legged in the middle of the stage. In a voice of clerical monotony, he says "Stop the wars, now." Cast members in the aisles shout back in unison, "Stop the wars, now!" He repeats the phrase half a dozen times as the audience response grows in force. Then he switches to "Freedom-now," and on through a litany of total dissent...
...Mariclare Costello) at 4 a.m. to tell her that the wedding bells are not going to chime. Fluttering around like a chicken with its head cut off, he sputters out a dozen reasons why the match would be catastrophic: like, for instance, her arms are too thin. When his hysteria runs out of steam, Susan blandly and sweetly asks him if he and his father got fitted for their tuxedos today...