Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objective coverage of an explosive issue. It seems to me that the syndicated coverage from Morningside Heights systematically and covertly presented an Establishment view or one which was benevolently indulgent of the insurgents. The result distorts or obliterates the real issues. What is involved, clearly, is neither haphazard hysteria nor pre-summer larks. Your reporting gives to the entire affair an ideology, a history, and what is more important, a subtle analytic respectability...
...hand, the Soviet Union was pressuring him to slow down his reforms; Pravda spoke ominously of "subversive activities, antipopular forces, anti-Communist hysteria and anarchy" in Czechoslovakia. To soothe the Russians, Dubček, accompanied by Premier Oldrich Cernik, flew to Moscow for talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Even as they went, however, increasingly vocal liberals in Czechoslovakia were demanding nothing less than full democracy...
...Chemical Company's recruiter being permitted on the campus. Several of these students had participated in the peace march on Washington on October 21, while others had lived vicariously through the stories of the beating and tear-gassing of the marchers by the Army's Military Police. The hysteria on campus resulted not just in what the students saw as their own government's brutal response to their protest, but also from what the students experienced, and what they proclaimed in the Harvard CRIMSON as the national press's unfair reporting of the entire incident. The school had taken...
...Tebaldi, Robert Merrill, Marilyn Home and Carlo Bergonzi are all equipped with voluptuous voices singing this perennial "singers' opera," complete with massive arias and roof-hitting dramatics. Tebaldi, the star of them all, has compensated for the loss of the famous velvet in her voice by inserting pulsating hysteria. Sometimes the effect works, sometimes not. Conductor Lamberto Gardelli makes a valiant effort to keep everybody's bombastics under control...
...Difference. The defense contended that the anti-card-burning law was passed in "hysteria" by Congress only to suppress dissent; that the law was unnecessary, since it is already illegal to be without the card; that the cards are unnecessary, since all the information is on file with the Government anyway; and that the act of burning is an act of dissent, and as such is protected under the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech...