Word: hysteria
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Having written this drama about a man whose conscience obliged him to stand almost alone against widespread folly and hysteria, Miller found himself in the same position in 1956 when, five days after receiving an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, he was summoned before the HUAC and asked for the names of other writers he had met at leftist meetings a decade earlier. As a result of his refusal to inform on others he was found guilty of contempt of Congress. His conviction was later overturned on appeal, but the experience nonetheless took its psychic toll...
developed by Dr. John de Normandie, who first analyzed the waters. He persuaded local authorities to brighten the town and drain some nearby marshes. His pump room is 40 feet long, and the baths can be refilled every five minutes. Philadelphia Physician Benjamin Rush recommends the treatment for "hysteria, palsy, epilepsy, certain stages of the gout, diseases of kidneys or bladder, all female obstructions [and] worms in children." Bristol is a market town on the Delaware River, about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia, and the New York-Philadelphia stage (30 shillings) passes through daily except Sundays. Accommodations are available...
...came the 1973 oil embargo, speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. ("double nickel" in CB argot) and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of lurking cops ("smokey bears") and radar cars ("Kojak with a Kodak"). Television news picked up the story, and the rest is hysteria...
...There are no massacres or bloodbaths, no massive terrorist force buildups, no panic or hysteria, no queues of people leaving the country. Journalists can travel safely with no fears of bomb explosions." That was the confident message of a propaganda letter recently printed up by Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime in Rhodesia for circulation abroad. Last week that confidence was somewhat shaken. Apparently slipping across the Mozambique border, black terrorists roamed 85 miles inside Rhodesia, killed three whites, wounded two, and severed the only direct railroad link to South Africa. It was the deepest penetration...
...less a matter of outright hostility toward Government, politics and institutions than an impatience with turmoil in American life. After years of fighting over race, drugs, sex, Viet Nam, Watergate and recession, voters are seeking some kind of normality. "There is a hunger to get away from crisis, stridency, hysteria, a rejection of any kind of extremism," reports TIME'S public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich. Agrees Alan Baron, a liberal Washington Democrat: "This country wants an overall amnesty. Everybody wants to rest." To Frank Mankiewicz, a director of George McGovern's emotional campaign in 1972, the attitude toward...