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...Syria. Attassi, although he was nephew of one of Syria's former Presidents and a cousin of Noureddin Attassi, the second-ranking man in the present Baath government, had to be hanged as a warning to all agents of "imperialism, capitalism and Zionism." In this atmosphere of hysteria, the $100 million in aid that the U.S. has extended to Syria since 1959 counts for little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: Of Hate & Espionage | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...Night Walker is a lukewarm bloodbath, but it does afford Veteran Horrorist Barbara Stanwyck a chance to unleash her hysteria as of yore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Look Back in Horror | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...imagine the conceivable Mysteries, the Persephone complex, hysteria, male envy of females, creativity, the cult of Dionysos, the effect of alcohol on fantasy, involvement in reality, and mental health? Does any of this help explain why Rudy Kats has found that college males whose verbal-math SAT scores differ by more than 100 points drink much more heavily than thoses whose scores differ less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Questions Promote Humility; E.g., 'Discuss Attic Greek Vowels' | 1/27/1965 | See Source »

Niemöller, who spent eight years in concentration camps for his courageous opposition to the Third Reich, has been going left ever since the end of World War II. He has denounced the "war hysteria" of the U.S., and once he said that he would not blame the Russians for trying to drive American forces out of Europe. He has suggested that a reunited Germany under Communism might be better than the present division, and has implied that the Federal Republic's army is a "high school for criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clergy: Pastor Niem | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

When Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy became "scared and ugly" in 1949 over the publicity given the disappearance of a bottle of uranium at the Argonne laboratory in Chicago, Lilienthal tried to talk sense to them: "Criticize the commission if you wish, but don't induce hysteria in this country. This is not bomb material, and you should not say it is. If the people find that Congress is rattled over a seventh of an ounce of uranium oxide, what can we expect when Russia has a stockpile of atomic weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sweet Draught of Power | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

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