Word: hysterias
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...from being scandalously permissive, Harvard's parietal rules are about average--or perhaps a bit on the restrictive side--for colleges of its type. The reason the current hysteria over parietals erupted at Harvard, rather than at Princeton or Dartmouth or M.I.T., is to be found not in the length of the hours but in the attitude of the Deans...
...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...
...scene of the hysteria in Wheeler's Soprano is the living room of the Smith's bourgeois home in the suburbs (Ionesco's Soprano originally exploded in a British parlor). On the left hand side of Don Berry's spare and perfectly appropriate set, Mr. Smith (Jerry Gershman) digests the evening newspaper, while on the right Mrs. Smith (Jo Lane) thinks over the dinner they may or may not have eaten--it never becomes clear which...
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...
...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...