Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every section of the U. S. last week the onetime rah-rah sport of football reached a state bordering on mass hysteria. In North Carolina, where once only alumni cared who won the Duke-North Carolina game, last week's clash between the Blue Devils of Durham and the Tar Heels of Chapel Hill divided 3,000,000 North Carolinians into two camps. Sober businessmen, tobacco farmers and textile hands, many of whom never saw a college campus, bet like drunken sailors on either Carolina (undefeated but tied) or Duke (defeated only by Pitt...
...Sebrin as their delicate child, and the tragically simple maid played by Una O'Connor: all combine to present a well acted production. Not one of them could really be given an ounce more credit than another. In addition to the acting, there is a genuine expose of the hysteria that accompanied the last war. In addition Max Steiner's musical background is really convincing...
...began to disperse, they went into action. They created a tumultuous riot, inflicted injuries on nearly fifty people who had attended the meeting, and went home singing the Star-Spangled Banner. The two incidents were widely separated in space and degree; yet both are part of a pattern of hysteria being woven around us. The vigilante attack on a minority speaker is not without precedent in Detroit; Harvard's ban on a minority speaker is a new departure in Cambridge. But the most startling aspect of Harvard's decision is the frailty of its excuse. Browder has been indicted...
...rebuke. Herewith the real Blanche Bates (who never wore tights) as she appeared in 1901 in Under Two Flags. A private company produced The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, though the CPI (which effectively suppressed other movies) let it pass without comment. TIME stated that Creel "deplored the national hysteria which his Committee had so successfully fostered." In general, as Authors Mock & Larson amply showed, George Creel's CPI occupied the position of bellwether of the propaganda herd...
This country is in grave danger of being involved in the European war. The mounting hysteria has already increased the danger of involvement and has threatened to eclipse the fundamental civil liberties of the American people. In refusing us our right to hear a speaker of our choice, the Administration can only contribute to this undemocratic hysteria. In taking such a step the Administration can only align itself with those who, according to a recent Crimson editorial, "are trying to build for the United States a super-highway straight to Armageddon...