Word: hysterias
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...Hand? In party circles there was violent and (for the first time) anonymous criticism of every phase of the Communist effort. When First Party Secretary Edward Ochab warned against allowing criticism to develop into "hysteria," a young Communist replied in a letter to a newspaper that talk of hysteria was no more than an attempt to stifle criticism...
...such sins as undermining the language by billing the perry como show in lower-case letters, and subverting the nation by pointing out in Biographies in Sound that George Washington was not perfect. But Helffrich has found that the principal areas of censorship trouble lie in 1) racial hysteria, 2) obvious salaciousness, 3) excessive violence and 4) irresponsible slaps at mental illness...
Baba and her friend have a private word-hysteria-for anything of which they disapprove. It is a word they use particularly often in reference to Americans. Yet Baba finds herself entranced by two Americans-Courtney and Alix Nichols, who betray the un-Indian heresy of being in love in the romantic Western pattern. Alix is also a recognizable U.S. type in that when Indian servants place a chair of honor for her, she insists on sitting on the ground. She will love the Indians, if it kills her-and them. Soon, of course, she is an expert on saris...
...freedom appears in Auto de Fe, in which an asthmatic and, presumably, latent homosexual youth faces his intractable mother, who represents social conscience. Playing the young man, Eloi, Glenn Goldburg uses immobile arms to portray his constriction and an extravagant Southern accent to emphasize the wildness of his hysteria. His greatest asset, however, is an extremely expressive face which fully reveals his sensitivity and agitation. In contrast is his mother, who is played by Elaine Gordon with such great stolidity and waspishness that one strongly sympathizes with Eloi's escape, violent...
...because Williams' hysterical females are naturally rich roles. Alma Winemiller, the sexually-repressed daughter of a prurient minister, is certainly a ready-made vehicle for fine acting, and Georgia Boyko fills the part admirably. Simultaneously repulsing and desiring the advances of young Dr. John Buchanan, Miss Boyko portrays her hysteria with a certain delicacy and restraint which make her character both distinctive and convincing. When she is severe with her mother, who has herself been driven insane by an unfulfilled sexual craving, Miss Boyko's high-pitched petulance makes the similarity of their situations apparent. Throughout, she acts, and reacts...