Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question last week, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker said that "Canada has no intention whatsoever of imposing any embargo on Canadian goods in Cuban trade." The Cuban reaction could hardly have been happier. Cheered Havana's El Mundo: "In Canada there does not prevail the aggressive hysteria which blinds the United States." The Castro paper ran a cartoon showing Canada's sturdy arm breaking the "Yankee economic blockade" around Cuba. Added the Cuban embassy in Ottawa: Relations with Canada are "perfect...
...reporter but as one statesman to another, and because he loaded his imprecise questions with long, patriotic declarations clearly designed to demonstrate Susskind's own political soundness (pressure against the show from all sides, including general dicta from the State Department, had produced the kind of "hysteria" in which he got caught, Susskind explained later). Now and again Susskind was flip, as when he delivered the now-famous line, "You are baying at the moon," and Old Moon-Shooter Khrushchev gave him a naughty-boy dressing down, beginning by asking Susskind's age (39) and suggesting...
...majority showed little permanent interest in invading the expensive haunts of the whites, and Rhodesia's European colony began to realize that the economic bar was practically as effective as the color bar-and far less embarrassing to maintain. There was even a spontaneous reaction against earlier hysteria. At Kitwe, when a mine company's cinema tried to evade the law by converting itself into a club for white "members," so many Europeans switched over to the desegregated commercial theater that the management flashed a grateful "thank you" on the screen...
Against these quiet fates, the author sets the civic uproar of Soviet public life, "the elaborate trumpery of our heroic age proudly proceeding across the face of the earth, clanking its medals." It is a time of hysteria, of a paranoid spy mania, and there are rumors that "cancer germs concealed in matches had been infiltrated into the country by a foreign power (you pick your teeth with a match and it's all over with you), or that, under the influence of cosmic rays, women were giving birth to girls (to the detriment of our army...
...reward-even as she makes the sign of the cross, the grieving widow will say, "Charon took him"-the miroloy mirrors in its 16-syllable line the lament of Andromache over the body of Hector. At graveside, the chief mourner's voice becomes a howl of hysteria ("Oh, my warrior! The arch and pillar of our house!"), her hair tumbles in disorder, and she tears at her cheeks with her fingernails till they are crisscrossed with red gashes and running with tears and blood. In the mesmeric half-trance of the dirge, the singer has been known to drift...