Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to be called "shell shock." Doctors now call it "traumatic war neurosis." The term "shell-shock" has been loosely used for symptoms ranging all the way from temporary nervousness and hysteria (e.g., a soldier thinks his arm is paralyzed but moves it when the doctor proves the reflexes are in working order) to permanent insanity. So far, about 5% of all World War II battle casualties and about 20% of the casualties returned to the U.S. have been nervous cases...
...mixture of dreadful passions in me. ... I fight against them, but I lose the struggle and in the end my life will end miserably, lost in passion, virtue and foolishness." Eugenie was almost a textbook image of ambitious and dislocated womanhood, tinged with the dread occupational diseases of hysteria and frigidity. But in her flaming devotion to an idea, she was magnificent. Her 93 years were one long, un-flickering act of faith in the Napoleonic legend. The intensity of this faith brought her marriage to Napoleon III, and helped make history, and helped unmake...
...citizens are fighting World War II with much less hysteria, many fewer violations of civil rights than during World War I, concluded the unsparing American Civil Liberties Union in a report on the twelve months ending June 1. The Union's explanation: 1) there is no organized, powerful radical and pacifist opposition to the war; 2) the Administration is self-consciously liberal; 3) opposition to the New Deal acts within the conventional democratic framework; 4) the public interest is concentrated on postwar plans; 5) the Supreme Court has buttressed the Bill of Rights...
Gallows built in sections in Detroit were shipped to the Milan (Mich.) penitentiary. The arrogant Stephan melted into whining hysteria. Hundreds of softhearted Americans and, reportedly, Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy (who opposes capital punishment) appealed to the White House for clemency...
...rabid fans. The experts agreed that love of rhythm and the desire to dance are "perfectly healthy." One neurologist, who would not let his name be used, explained: "All of life, all humanity, the cosmos itself, is built upon the beat principle. . . . Its appeal is closely connected with mob hysteria, for you see the same responses in Germany, in the Niirnberg meetings, for example, where the multitudes are swung together under control in a certain direction. One of the secrets of Hitler's power as an orator is in his reiteration, in the beat, the pulse, the rhythm...