Word: hysteria
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...straw-filled dummy used to hang a Negro in effigy was set afire. The demonstrators shrieked and shouted in near hysteria but gave way before National Guardsmen...
...parents as Communists. They have left the party but refuse to finger their friends and are sentenced to two years in prison. Finally, fed up with FBI "persecution" of the boy, the king decides to "sit it out in Europe," suggests as the film ends that the "hysteria" in the U.S. is a passing phase...
...scenes in the broadcasting studio, where the original sound man was back at his old Mars machines, but in trying to chronicle the reaction of different types of people in different situations, Night was forced to juggle more vignettes than it could handle, rarely managed to recapture the ensuing hysteria. Bogeyman Welles, who earned himself a national sponsor for his imagination, failed even to get a mention. Reason: Welles never acknowledged repeated CBS invitations to appear...
Duration of Stay: Indefinite, said Stern in Red Prague last week. The U.S. is caught up in "spy hysteria" to the point that "war budgets can be passed, disarmament conferences torpedoed and peaceful coexistence deferred." His exception was the U.S. Supreme Court, "one of the most liberal bodies in the U.S. in recent times." "We are visiting this peace-loving country," he said, "and we are enjoying an interesting and restful trip." Another announcement of the week, from Moscow: the U.S.S.R. next year will publish Martha Dodd's latest book, The Searching Light...
...every book on Negroes be banned from the university library. Others have kept up a running attack on Dean Robert J. Farley of the law school because he signed a document asking respect for the U.S. Supreme Court after its decisions against segregation. Worst of all, the anti-integration hysteria has become so pervasive that many students have become spies and informers for segregationists in the state, each keeping his own blacklist of suspects. "You can imagine," says one graduate student, "the frustration of those people who live in fear of being put on one of the lists. They spend...