Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life for Smith is a continuing drama and a continuing ordeal. Teaching, though he has been at it since 1946 (at N.Y.U., Cooper Union, Pratt, Bennington and now Hunter), is still "an exercise in sheer hysteria. I sometimes think I'm going to pass out before I get going." Friends' trials move him deeply. In addition, since a 1961 auto crackup, he has developed a blood disease that causes frequent nosebleeds, and fogging out. What mainly sustains him nowadays is the heady thrill of success, the joy of being called upon to create bigger and more exciting monuments...
...resembles more closely the 1953 wedding of another Margaret known as Peggy, the daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer. His Peggy wed Joseph Appiah, son of an Ashanti chief and now a legal adviser to the Ghanian government. Britain took it without hysteria...
...much as the event. On display in Manhattan's Dintenfass Gallery last week was an exuberantly witty and challengingly mordant display of 52 paintings and collages anatomizing an assassination. Its extraordinary impact derived from the fact that the artist, Elias Friedensohn, 42, had chosen to examine the hysteria attendant on the death-not of John F. Kennedy in 1963, but of President William Mc-Kinleyin...
Despite the economic ruin that would follow a massive Belgian withdrawal, Mobutu was anything but contrite. He denied personal responsibility for the rioting, insisted that all well-meaning whites were perfectly safe in his country. If there was any anti-Belgian hysteria, he said, it was all to be blamed on the mercenaries sitting boldly in Bukavu and issuing ultimatums calling for the return of Moise Tshombe...
...victory moved Boston to within one game of first-place Minnesota and Chicago, it moved the 26,000 fans to near hysteria, and it moved Republican Governor John Volpe a little closer to mass support for his stadium plan...