Word: hysterias
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...this seemed redolent of flackery, and the Beatles were certainly well publicized. But no press-agent can light a blaze like that-he can only strike a match here and there and pray to the pressagents' god. The Beatles are being fueled by a genuine, if temporary, hysteria. In every part of the U.S., teen-agers are talking about little else, and superthatch Beatle-size wigs are being sold by the hundreds of dozens. But part of the Beatles peculiar charm is that they view it all with bemused detachment. If they are asked why they think they qualify...
...death he could not mourn. There are Quentin's two wives, both of whom finally find him "cold and remote." The first, Louise, is Miller's first wife, Mary Grace Slattery. The second is Maggie, a switchboard operator who becomes a celebrated performer only to succumb to sexual obsessions, hysteria, drink, and fatal sleeping-pills--Marilyn Monroe, of course. Quentin's third big love is Holga, an archaeologist from Salzburg who helps Quentin to confront the Nazis' genocide camps (twice she states, "No-one they [the Nazis] didn't kill can be innocent again," and Quentin muses, "No man lives...
...face of the disaster. One woman charged that she found a Greek crewman looting her cabin when she went to get her life jacket, and another claimed that a sailor had made a pass at her. Undoubtedly, many of the accusations were the result of passenger terror and hysteria and the fact that few of the crew spoke English, thus causing their intentions to be misconstrued. But it was evident that the fire-fighting procedures were inadequate and that many of the lifeboats had been lowered in panic with only crewmen aboard, leaving the passengers to fend for themselves...
...Gross, who, amid all the hysteria and the breast-beating, had the moral courage to ask his cohorts in the House of Representatives who was going to pay the tab for the eternal flame in Arlington...
...reason, theoretical a week ago, now will be shared by all: it is that the American government of men by laws administered by men transcends all those who animate it. Because the people do accept this reason, the lives we led, we lead still. The country suffers sadness, not hysteria; tragedy, not chaos. For that, one can be grateful...