Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conception of director David Wheeler, The Bald Soprano,by Eugene Ionesco, is neither farcical nor dead serious. Rather, like the hysteria of a madman, it is full of terribly important messages which are difficult to interpret...
Near the end comes the cry. The nurse's pain becomes hysteria: "I am sick of everything in this hot, stupid, fly-ridden world. I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I am sick of this desk ... this uniform ... it scratches ... I am tired of the truth ... and I am tired of lying about the truth ... I am tired of my skin ... I WANT OUT!" Jack, Bessie's driver and boy-friend, comes to this hospital, after being turned away from another, asking someone to help Bessie, knowing she is already...
Hounded by Hysteria. Palmer rose in politics as a progressive Democrat from Pennsylvania. Elected to Congress in 1908, he bravely bucked his state's powerful industrialists to join the fight for lower tariffs. He was friendly to labor and welfare legislation; his bill to abolish child labor was hailed as the "most momentous measure of the Progressive Era." When he was beaten in a try for the Senate, President Wilson consoled him with the wartime post of alien property custodian and in 1919 named him Attorney General...
Since Wilson was ill and inactive, Palmer was forced to deal with the rising hysteria. But even when his own home was bombed, Palmer hesitated to act against the radicals. He stopped prosecutions under the wartime Espionage Act. He urged Wilson to release Socialist Party, Leader Eugene V. Debs, who had been sentenced to ten years in prison for opposing the war. The popular villains were aliens, and there was a widespread demand for their deportation. But as late as October 1919, Palmer said: "We cannot be less willing now than we have always been that the oppressed of every...
...Department issued somber warnings that May Day 1920 would be marked by unprecedented violence and not a firecracker went off, Palmer was ridiculed in the press. Businessmen began to worry that immigrant labor might dry up, and the press, which only a few months before had been fanning the hysteria, ran sober stories about the importance of immigrants to the nation...