Word: hysterias
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Invisible Pull. But the method in Matusow's mendacity showed up like a red light. Asked about the Communist Party conspiracy, he called it "a lot of unfounded hysteria." He charged that investigating committees "forced me and many others" to bear false witness against Communism. In one remarkable sentence, he orated: "I'm for the country, and I'm for God, and therefore, sir, I can't see myself being anti-Communist...
Smith thought that the current rise in the stock market was not due to any form of speculative hysteria, but to faith in the growth and stability of American economy...
...statement, Galbraith said that buying on the market may reach the type of speculative hysteria which led to the 1929 depression. To forestall this possibility, he proposed that stock buying should be conducted with a 100 percent margin instead of a 60 percent margin...
...tempting to convey many highly specialized data concerning today's most momentous issue - genuine mental health. In this era of escapism, mass alcoholism, counterfeit divorce decrees, hospitalized thousands of paranoia, hebephrenia and catatonia victims who are the victims of serious social blights, shallow philosophy, A- and H-bomb hysteria, pathetically false rationalizing and a disregard for God's holy commandments, etc., yours was an exceptionally well-timed article...
Without a fine performance in the role of the girl, Ann Putnam, the atmosphere of the witch trials would be difficult to understand. But Abigail Lewis plays the part of the accuser with a shocking mixture of malice and unbalance that makes the contagion of her hysteria easily believable. The passion of her seizures punctuates the sober dialogues of her elders and the dignity of courtroom procedure with the note of tension that lies beneath the whole action of the play. As her bewildered father, Layton Zimmer gives the weakest of the major performances, and fails adequately to show...