Word: hysteria
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...with Catholic University!" then knelt to say the Rosary in protest, together with a group of students that included one of her ten children, Cathy, 19. Ti-Grace, considerably shaken, cut her speech short. "That face," she said later, "I've seen it in so many churches-the hysteria, the desperation. I felt for her. It's outrageous that it's the women who are the sufferers...
...ever, the wettest eyes in Christendom. Yet it is Clavell who bears prime responsibility for this drive-in Mother Courage. His battle scenes are stagy and confused; even his anachronistic editorials ("War is all I have") ring false. Clavell misunderstands the nature of historic evil, of political hysteria, and of war itself -Thirty Years' or any time, anywhere...
...unusually frantic game that saw both benches empty in the first period, inspired by a large contingent of Brown fans and the normal Section 18 hysteria. The fight erupted when Brown's Curt Bennet went berserk and attacked the Harvard bench with his stick. Bennet received a minor penalty for "malicious use of his stick" and a trip to the locker room for misconduct, a fitting career finale for a defenseman who spent much of the season in the penalty...
...deepest wellsprings of drama, it is an hour well spent. Within the past two weeks, Joseph Papp's Public Theater, where The Grey Lady Cantata is housed, has offered playgoers: Subject to Fits (a free-form fantasy based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot), Slag (claustrophobic feminine hysteria in a decaying British girls' school) and Here Are Ladies (see below). The handsome landmark building on Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan carries the exciting bee-hum of dramatic activity on every floor. Here is life, imagination, audacity and skill...
...lengths and expense to embarrass themselves is that this is what their audience wants. Hasty Pudding musicals apparently are created to give brief life to the naive, sick fantasies of pathetic old final clubbies and their frigid wives. On opening night, this segment of the audience went wild with hysteria over every tasteless innuendo. This does not cover up the fact that these people missed the boat when it came to sex, and Rhinestones in the Rough is nothing if not an entertainment for those who think masturbation is a way of life...