Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like other rough mysteries, war is something the wits of The Little Group would prefer to skim or skip. When it comes, some of them foam with the "war hysteria" they used to deride. Their self-assured little world, fissured anyway with snobberies, jealousies and plots, goes to pieces. As Harvard overflows with V-12s in training, Dorothea's libertine of 1923 shows up rich and flashy in a Navy uniform. As the ensuing chapters unreel, the reader may think that Miss Howe's heroine is being loaded with the wartime experiences of a dozen women rather than...
Ever since Hiroshima, thinkers have started one chain reaction after another about The Bomb. "To clear away the hysteria," five of them published The Absolute Weapon (Harcourt Brace; $2) this week. The five (Bernard Brodie, Frederick Dunn, Arnold Wolfers, Percy Corbett, William Fox), all members of the Yale Institute of International Studies, have produced the best overall job yet on the atom's actual political implications. They make it more real by frankly presupposing that the only two powers likely to engage in an atomic-armament race are the U.S. and Russia...
...TIME never dreamed of suggesting that Reuben suffers from chronic hysteria, but thinks his voice is more effective in the lower register...
...contribution," he said magnanimously, "to our nation's economy, which is being imperiled by the stupidity and selfish greed of the coal operators and associated financial interests and by demagogues who have tried to lash the public mind into a state of hysteria...
...atmosphere of tension and hysteria Reuther at last went to Convention Hall to hear the decision. With sideline fist fights, near-riots, shouts of "quack, quack" (the auto workers' way of saluting Communist colleagues), with threats and pleas for order from the chair-and with most of the 60 lady delegates voting for Reuther-labor's most democratic union elected its leader. Reuther squeaked in by a hair (4,444 to 4,320). R. J. Thomas wept and stumbled off the stage...