Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better to Judge. The committee recognized the special problem of dealing with Communists and other subversive groups. The report decried proposals, arising out of "near-hysteria," which would restrict a Communist's freedom to speak. The committee recommended instead that groups "which attempt to influence public opinion" be required to disclose all pertinent facts about themselves, as now required of business by the SEC. Said the report: "Our purpose ... is to enable the people better to judge the true motives of those who try to sway them...
...Communist Party will not join the recently organized Cominform. The U.S Reds approved the Cominform's avowed aims, the chief of which was to block U.S. aid to Europe. But they were afraid that if they joined, "the reactionary and pro-fascist forces now whipping up anti-Communist hysteria . . . would undoubtedly seize upon such action . . . as a pretext for new provocations and repressions against the Communists and all other sections of the American labor and progressive movement...
Halsey and Collaborator Bryan play one game throughout the Story which will annoy all but the Admiral's most devout fans. Halsey is made to strike a modest pose but permits the "editor" to enter his citations and whatever flash compliments piled up during a period of wartime hysteria...
William West, playing the lead role of Dr. Stockmann, is to a large degree responsible for the crumbling of the play into atomized hysteria. Through the first two acts he dashed headlong through his lines, cut in on his cues before lines were finished, and strutted about, the stage with his head slightly bowed and his hands shifting at irregular intervals from his coat lapels to unpleasant gestures. In the final act West slowed down enough to give some meaning to his lines, but he never managed to get across the admittedly poorly presented ideas of Stockmann. Jack Hodges, playing...
...poetry of departure." Instead of honor and recognition, his Fleurs du Mal brought him ignominy, and a court order suppressing six of the poems as obscene. Five years later came the crisis in his long descent towards damnation; on Jan. 23, 1862, he wrote, "I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror . . . and today I have received a singular warning. I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me." Baudelaire was dying slowly of syphilis...