Word: hysteria
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...China today, Lindsay remarked, "a very high state of political hysteria," prevails. The leaders of the country, utilizing a very rigid and extreme form of Marxist analysis, have even rejected the law of diminishing returns as a "bourgeois fallacy...
Rockets for What? Such U.S. actions only seemed to increase the Cuban hysteria. Touring Russia. Carlos Franqui, editor of Castro's Revolución, begged Khrushchev to repeat his promise of Russian rockets to protect Cuba. Said Khrushchev noncommittally: "I want that declaration to be, in effect, symbolic." Insisted Franqui: "Are the rockets ready?" The real question was: Ready for what...
...question last week, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker said that "Canada has no intention whatsoever of imposing any embargo on Canadian goods in Cuban trade." The Cuban reaction could hardly have been happier. Cheered Havana's El Mundo: "In Canada there does not prevail the aggressive hysteria which blinds the United States." The Castro paper ran a cartoon showing Canada's sturdy arm breaking the "Yankee economic blockade" around Cuba. Added the Cuban embassy in Ottawa: Relations with Canada are "perfect...
...reporter but as one statesman to another, and because he loaded his imprecise questions with long, patriotic declarations clearly designed to demonstrate Susskind's own political soundness (pressure against the show from all sides, including general dicta from the State Department, had produced the kind of "hysteria" in which he got caught, Susskind explained later). Now and again Susskind was flip, as when he delivered the now-famous line, "You are baying at the moon," and Old Moon-Shooter Khrushchev gave him a naughty-boy dressing down, beginning by asking Susskind's age (39) and suggesting...
Against these quiet fates, the author sets the civic uproar of Soviet public life, "the elaborate trumpery of our heroic age proudly proceeding across the face of the earth, clanking its medals." It is a time of hysteria, of a paranoid spy mania, and there are rumors that "cancer germs concealed in matches had been infiltrated into the country by a foreign power (you pick your teeth with a match and it's all over with you), or that, under the influence of cosmic rays, women were giving birth to girls (to the detriment of our army...