Word: hysteria
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...crusade to eliminate medicaid funds for abortions in Massachusetts. Flynn finished very poorly in the 1975 council race, but with the publicity garnered by his anti-abortion bill, he changed the rules of rabblerousing somewhat, using the issue to get his name in print rather than to create mass hysteria. It would be foolish, however, to discount the campaign help many right-to-lifers gave...
...hysteria prevailing on the scientific front has gone even further than the angry words expressed here last spring. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) withdrew his name last month from a bill he introduced last April which would have imposed severe penalties--up to $10,000 a day for experimentation performed which did not conform to NIH guidelines--under pressure from a number of scientific committees that paid him a visit in Washington. "That first bill excited resistance among the governing board of the American Scientists Committee of Microbiology," says DeWitt Stetton '30, deputy director of science...
...establish. The American (1946) is a fictionalized biography of John P. Altgeld, a poor Illinois farm boy who became governor of his state in the 1890s. Against a storm of political pressure, Altgeld pardoned three anarchists who had been wrongly convicted of murder in 1886 during the public hysteria that followed Chicago's Haymarket Riot. Lavette, Paine and Altgeld all start out poor, and all have to battle the stigma of being outsiders...
...Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming. This film will no longer seem as cathartically satirical as it did when first released in the mid-sixties, when an atmosphere of Cold-War hysteria still hung low, if somewhat less thick than in the 50's, over most of middle-America. But Alan Arkin's comic franticness in this tale about a small New England coastal village thrown into a frenzy when a Russian ship docks in its harbor and the Reds start mixing with the town-folk should still be good for some belly-laughs...
...when he was young an thin, and very pale, and very convincing as a psychopath who murders children. The scene where a young girl is murdered and the camera cuts to the girl's balloons drifting aimlessly, is one of the most chilling in all film, and the crowd hysteria at the end makes you wish Lang could have directed Day of the Locust. It foreshadows the hysteria that was to come ten years later. Not to be missed, this first offering by the Quad Film Festival is the best movie around the Square this weekend...