Word: hysterias
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...cliff. Here March seems to indicate his sad beliefs as to the function and fate of the writer who says unwelcome things. As for the short stories, many of them concern madness and abnormality, and are set in a shambling Southern town called Reedyville. They have the sincere hysteria of a man recounting an intolerable experience to indifferent ears. Although his work was something less than first-rate, no reader can fail to see the rictus of terror in the face of a harsh and ironic reality...
...Emotional engineering in the United States is causing hysteria and fear in the minds of the American people," Robert E. Gussner, Secretary of the northeastern division of the Fellowship of Reconciliation told a PBH audience last night...
According to Gussner, the country is in the grip of a mass hysteria of national pride. "If I went out in the street now and stamped on the American flag," he said, "I would be instantly mobbed. But if instead, I went out and yelled 'Down with the Jews!' people would just say that I was crazy and walk away." He explained that such actions would show the popular interest in a national symbol and not in people themselves...
...Yeatsian distress the Harvard community gazes anxiously at the widening gyre of its dramatic activities. With at least a dozen groups already formed and new ones blossoming each month, there is some ground for this mild hysteria. Opinions differ as to the nature of the problem--some say that acting talent is spread too thinly, other that there is not enough capital at hand--but the groups agree that the root of the trouble is dissipation of effort. Many feel that this dispersion can only be prevented by legislation...
...puzzle. The Princess bows to the Archbishop-but the churches are empty, and religion is in evident decline. Britain is the U.S.'s strongest ally against Communism-and yet many Britons still look on the Communist conspiracy as if it were largely a fiction of American "hysteria." Britain continues to embody the kind and courageous middle-class virtues -and yet a social landslide has brought to some a nagging despair, to others a kind of fatigued boredom...