Word: hysteria
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Fats Domino, a chubby torpedo with the hands of a rake and the voice of a raspy chain saw, deposited his 300-pound frame at the piano and began to play. They turned on the house-lights. Fats, in a red silk toga, had been known to inspire hysteria...
...thing they have to a U.S. literary ideal is Faulkner. James Gould Cozzens has made little impression on them. Students read Koestler, but Orwell gets a bigger play. Eliot holds his own, but as much for his criticism as for his poetry. Dylan Thomas is admired, but evokes no hysteria. Students still delve into Freud, but they are just as apt to be worried about the psychology of The Organization Man. The one new American author who has something approaching a universal appeal is J. D. Salinger, with his picture of the tortured process of growing...
...course there are still some people around who can't face the facts of life, and so they turn anxiously to Gloomy Gusses like Karl Earth and Reinhold Niebuhr as an escape. But their brand of revived Fundamentalism obviously will not survive the present wave of postwar hysteria. In general, it seems to me that modern man is slowly but surely waking up to the realization that in order to move forward towards a scientific and democratic civilization he must rely on intelligent faith in himself...
Upon Dwight Eisenhower converged all the frets, frustrations and fears of a suddenly fretful and frustrated people. His first duty was to stop the cries of hysteria. His second, and most important, responsibility was to re-examine the U.S. position in a world where space flight-whatever its immediate practical value- has temporarily become the enemy's exclusive capability...
...population vaccination will be too late to give protection against early attacks. By midwinter it may do more good. Some San Francisco doctors, however, declared the vaccine is only 50% effective. Shooting from the hip, they charged that the whole vaccination program was a piece of engineered hysteria to promote vaccine sales. Said Medical Society President Donald M. Campbell: "I'm giving vaccine only to relieve near-hysteria...