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...Worthy's diapatch go unnoticed? "There was irrationality on a mass scale at the time, with the government and press working overtime to foster a state of hysteria over Cuab's revolution," Worthy says. He adds that nobody is going to listen to practical, common sense reporting in such an environment...

Author: By Joanthan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Man Worth Heeding | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

...character is not developed from the beginning, Bessie Burgess' heroism seems to come from nowhere. Her death fails to be convincingly tragic. And in Nora's madness there are heard none of the Ophelian overtones that O'Casey's lines can convey: what appears onstage is little more than hysteria...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: A Terrible Beauty Stillborn | 12/3/1976 | See Source »

...wish to respond separately and succinctly to the following quote: The Green Degenerates "simply fail to realize that while triumphs over the Crimson might cause hysteria in Hanover, losses to the Big Green hardly cause a ripple around Tommy's Lunch." A good friend from Harvard, after the game, said that he had never seen the Crimson team jump around so much after a game. Mike, you might also consult Coach Restic concerning your blind assumption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kangaroo Court | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

...really doubtful, though, that the Dartmouth fans, obnoxious at best and cry-babyish the rest of the time, have any equals. Anywhere. They simply fail to realize that while triumphs over the Crimson might cause hysteria in Hanover, losses to the Big Green hardly cause a ripple around Tommy's Lunch...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Tears for Some Clowns | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...levels that are unrealistically high, even for the normally inflated real estate market in Southern California. Says Frank Carr, executive vice president of W.R. Grace Properties, Inc., a land-developing arm of W.R. Grace & Co.: "I've never seen anything like it. You have to call it hysteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: New Starts: A Checkered Pattern | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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