Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under the Republicans, Wall Street ran America; under the present administration, Wall Street is all set to run the world. . . . The war-with-Russia hysteria is a propaganda weapon of reactionary capitalism. . . . Let us face the fact that our crises are not brought on by the Communists. The people responsible for high prices, high rents and growing insecurity are the monopoly capitalists and their political errand-boys...
...hierarchy of the great masters, the greatest have a quality beyond the temporal, which Picasso lacks, and shock tactics are not a final way to alter human vision. The crux and center of Picasso's art is, in my view, hysteria, and in this he so echoes the prevailing evil of his age that he seems to be its prophet...
Concern over the fate of Varsity morals at the hands of traditional Ivy League nonchalance has driven Gerald Spear '48, chief cheerleader, to the brink of hysteria and into the public prints in an appeal for rah-rah organizers...
...when he was 22, he told his wife Emma and a few intimates that he had discovered more awesome treasure. It was a pentecostal time of wild religious mysticism and hysteria. Scores of thousands of Americans were pondering the second coming of Christ, thronging into camp meetings where they danced, hopped, screeched and talked convulsively "in tongues." Joseph Smith's story: an angel named Moroni had told him where to unearth some golden plates covered with mystic symbols...
...manner of sibilances and razzberries. The demonstration was not really rowdy anyway: it was incredibly well-organized, although motivated by genuine indignation: nobody got hit; nobody said anything stronger than "drat." It is not true that the "zealots," as you call them (we imagine you are probably against "hysteria," too), played into Smith's hands and gave him good publicity; it would seem on the contrary that the occasion proved that there are at least 700 people in the Boston Area--who won't stand for Jew-baiting, Negro-baiting and the rest of Smith's bag of tricks...