Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warmest defenders of The Moon are Novelist Pearl Buck, Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, Dorothy Thompson, Book Reviewer Lewis Gannett. Gannett called the "totalitarian crusade" against the story "a depressing example of wartime hysteria." Said Dorothy Thompson: "I know dozens of German officers who were thoroughly mature when last I enjoyed friendly relations with them, and they were just like [Colonel Lanser].... The enormous power in Mr. Steinbeck's drama is that it is not an attack on Nazis. It is an attack on Naziism." Meanwhile The Moon is Down is doing quite nicely. As a novel, it has sold...
Amidst a wave of war hysteria and general suspicion Harvard has here succeeded in keeping its head. Far outweighing the doubtful benefit of conditioning a few pacifists would have been the considerable loss of freedom that such a move of necessity entails. If we hope to avoid ruthless, indiscriminatory suppression, we must be as liberal toward harmless minorities as we are stern in our opposition to dangerous ones...
...rose Majority Leader Barkley in the midst of the 40-hour-week hullabaloo in Congress. He told his colleagues their hysteria was needless. The critical mail pouring into Washington had been inspired by old enemies of the New Deal. The motive: to destroy New Deal labor laws. The "grass roots" uprising in the South was an organized campaign. Congressmen bellowing about the 40-hour week had better go home, talk to the voters...
Against this doom Geneviève Tabouis, ex-political pythoness of Paris' Leftist L'Oeuvre, for seven years waged a one-woman struggle, of which these memoirs are a record. To her hopeless struggle she brought a union sacrée of journalistic hysteria and a sense of history that made her acutely aware of all that was most ominous to France in the turmoil of her times. She crammed her daily column on international politics with facts. Sometimes they were staggering and momentarily effective. Sometimes they were merely melodramatic...
...myself," 50,000,000 Frenchmen laughed. For Author Tabouis, with possibly the best sources of any European journalist, often did not show good judgment in sifting the true from the sensational. She promulgated not only scoops but fables. As her consciousness grew that France was doomed, so did her hysteria...