Word: hysterias
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...that of a friend with whom one was to have had tea. To make things worse, a plague of mysterious telephone calls begins. A man's voice delivers a chilling message: "Remember you must die." Police investigate but uncover nothing; suggestions are made of mass hysteria. The plague spreads; old scoffers answer their phones, hear the message, but shut it out when they can, determined to caper out their danse macabre till they drop. At their best, which of course is their worst, they behave like characters somehow kept alive after the last page of a Waugh novel...
...There is only one trend in the American theatre, and that trend is Eli Kazan.... I certainly don't know anyone whom actors venerate so much. But he seems to prefer plays concerned with extremes of pain, extremes of guilt, extremes of hysteria. Now there are a lot of awfully good plays on that subject"; here he instances Oedipus Rex. But "Oedipus expiates for the sake of his entirectiy," while the heroes of J.B. and Sweet Bird of Youth (the two plays most recently directed by Kazan) are concerned in their expiation only with themselves. "Somehow the connection between strong...
...recent "blood bath" hysteria which has existed in some quarters, some have lost sight of the fact that not of all the persons tried have been convicted. In Santiago de Cuba, 24 were released, and in Matanzas, 50-odd were set free. It is probably the understatement of the year to say that there has been much misunderstanding lately between the U.S. and Cuba. Our well publicized calls for intervention or punishment in various forms are antagonizing not only the Cubans but people of all Latin American countries. In a conversation with Gustavo Olguin, Mexican movie and television executive...
Titanic's voyage to disaster, with all the heroism and hysteria reported in Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller. Done in stark, documentary style, with skillful collaboration from Scriptwriter Eric Ambler and Actor Kenneth More...
...hysteria about what can be done in the field of psychological persuasion" ought to be dispelled along with the apprehension of a "1984 society twenty years early," Raymond A. Bauer, Ford Foundation Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Business Administration, said last night...