Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no graver portent in American life today than the determined effort to create a 'red' scare and exercise a censorship over our colleges and universities. If this campaign of terrorism and hysteria should succeed it would sound the death knell of academic freedom everywhere. Censorship by government, such as ruined the German universities overnight, is dreadful enough, but censorship by an irresponsible press which stops to dishonesty, trickery, and deceit to achieve its ends and by self-appointed super-patriotic guardians is worse; for that means censorship, passion, and prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch...
...INSTITUTION. THERE ARE NO COMMUNISTS ON EMORY UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND NONE IN STUDENT BODY. SO FAR AS WE CAN DISCOVER WE ARE CONVINCED THAT YAGOL, WHO IS A PHI BETA KAPPA AND A MAN OF HIGH IDEALS, IS BEING PERSECUTED BY PERSONS WHO SEEK TO TURN CURRENT ANTI-RED HYSTERIA TO THEIR OWN PROFIT. HEARSTLING JACOBS' HOSTILITY TOWARD EMORY IS EASILY EXPLAINED BY FACT THAT EMORY REFUSES TO ACCEPT OGLETHORPE'S CREDIT BECAUSE THAT INSTITUTION IS NOT ACCREDITED EITHER BY SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OR ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES...
...pause for reflection is vital," says Mrs. Jo. "Achieve that and the unfortunate woman generally saves herself. The thing is to ease their hysteria, if only for a few hours, and get them away from hysterical friends. We do this in simple little establishments called Wait-a-Bits. These we have established in both Japan and Chosen (Korea) and soon we will have Wait-a-Bits in Manchukuo...
...Newspaper reviewers sent up a praiseful paean to the adjectival accompaniment of: "Lovely! Exquisite! Extraordinary! Marvelous! Thrilling! Exciting! Radiant! True magnificence! Superlative!" Burns Mantle of the Daily News: "The potion scene, I venture, has never been as tellingly read as Miss Cornell gave it last night, simply, without affected hysteria, or hair-tearing.'' Brooks Atkinson of the Times: "This is an occasion. All a reviewer can say is 'Bravo!' " High praise, too, was due Miss Cornell's excellent supporting company. Particularly good was Edith Evans as the Nurse. Miss Evans speaks lines which are usually...
...doubt the highly sensitive Democratic ego, unused to power and position, would pull a fit of hysteria at even a hint that the chief of the clan was not perfect, but others of ordinary sanity are not upset when facts are mentioned...