Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Piece by piece the audience begins to unbend, soon a species of buying hysteria overtakes them and for a whole there is a regular avalanche of sales. Proceedings cool down a bit, however, after it becomes clear that the so-called limited number of boxes are showing no signs at all of running out, and after a few of the lucky first comers have had a chance to see their prizes. At the end of the show after more blue lights. Russian dancing bears, and suggestive hip wiggles, there file out into the dismal Boston streets many proud possessors...
Hughes summed it all up: "Everywhere, racing tongues and typewriters, trying to articulate racing hopes and fears, greeted the dramatic appearance of the U.S. in the center of the world arena with some hysteria, much hyperbole, great hope- and a perceptible shudder...
...spring of 1946 a kind of climax occurred. The great Railway Labor Act, hailed as the model machinery for peaceful settlements, broke down. An anguished and embarrassed Harry Truman demanded, among other things, the authority to draft the striking engineers and trainmen into the U.S. Army. And in the hysteria of the moment, 306 Congressmen agreed to that authoritarian expedient. The Senate, led by Taft, gutted the President's bill and it died. The whole affair ended in a kind of shocked and shamefaced silence...
...quite drastic, closely related change is being effected without strong, opposition simply because it makes sense. The sense to a requirement of a knowledge of the large out lines of World History is plain too if only on the level that it can help stave off unnecessary war hysteria. In this connection, a recent study-also made at Princeton-found that "30 million Americans of voting age had no idea at all of Russia's form of government." Despite the special, and to a large degree just, claims of philosophy, economics and the sciences to equal consideration, the conclusions...
...witch-hunt indiscriminately pinning the Red label to independent-thinking individuals or magnifying the significance of the neurotic schoolboy Party Liner will only serve to arouse thousands of students across the country in defense of civil liberties. The informed in every stratum of society will surely resist obvious hysteria-shenanigans. Republican leaders are inviting near-unanimous condemnation from intelligent citizens if they throw thought-police methods in the face of American Education...