Word: hysteria
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...zany creature that the public saw, all that campy, trivial bluster, was real enough in its way, it was far from the substance of her deeper glow," writes Myra Friedman in Buried Alive (Morrow; $7.95). "The hysteria, the extravagance, and the foolish noise were a barren fuss embraced by barren hearts, and it was a lost child who would kick up such rubbish to gain entrance into rooms so empty." Written with a sympathetic intelligence, at times fiercely lyrical, Buried Alive is an honest book about Joplin the idol and Joplin the victim in the frantic, manic disarray of rock...
...dictate the beauty of crystals. Her life is reflected in the cold facets of her art. Early poems tell of her unhappy marriage to the Russian poet, Nikolai Gumilyov. A short poem dated 1911 ends: He couldn't stand bawling brats,/ raspberry jam with his tea,/ or womanish hysteria . . . And he was tied...
...Paso's public schools. "The only thing I can do is stay extremely busy in the daytime so that I just collapse at night, " she says. "I go to every dum-dum thing that comes along. I've been active before, but never with such hysteria. I cannot stand to think about it-if I relax...
...precisely to fill this vacuum that man devised the concept of God in the first place. But try to cajole a group of disillusioned children into believing in Santa Claus again; it won't work, and I suggest we search elsewhere to cure the mass hysteria already enveloping the world as man slowly awakens from a cherished fairy tale...
Martha's hysteria then was overt, but despite a certain amount of public skepticism, it turned out that her cries about official skulduggery had a solid basis in fact. The Mitchells made their peace, and John bought Martha a Fifth Avenue apartment, complete with gold bathroom fixtures, where she has kept herself busy since last fall selecting and arranging the furnishings...