Word: hysterias
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...National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (30 denominations, Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, with more than 35 million members). The council's third general assembly, which convened in Boston last week, was the first such gathering in a long while that did not profess to see "hysteria" rampant but found some satisfactory progress "within the framework of tested constitutional procedures." The council hailed evidence of "a spiritual seeking and hunger" in the U.S., but also sounded the churchmen's new blue note: we're-failing-because-we're-too-successful...
...absence, a myth has been developed. I hope that the return of the mere man will help to dispel the myth ... I shall renew my efforts to dispel the deception that has been foisted on the American people." He said he hoped to "allay" the "fear and hysteria of these times." Asked if he planned to write a book, he replied: "I certainly intend to do some writing." A box wrapped in Manila paper, said to contain Hiss's notes and papers, was loaded into a red Chevrolet convertible. Then, with his family and two lawyers, Hiss drove...
...notice, for instance, that when Hollywood writers are unemployed for a while and get to the hysteria stage, their dogs will often start vomiting in the morning like their owners. But as soon as a writer gets a good assignment, the problem al ways straightens itself out." Walls & Cabanas. In Hollywood, even a well-adjusted dog can eventually go to pot. Sometimes a movie star may be away for weeks on location, leaving his dog to frisk around the swimming pool or a 20-room mansion. But loneliness finally catches up with him. and he is apt to be found...
John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy, found the censure vote "very encouraging and an affirmation of the dignity of the Senate." Wild said that the McCarthy methods, such as "preying on mass hysteria," have thus been labeled "definitely bad" by the action of the Senate...
...Elgin Hour, Massa Robert Cummings tried valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had a tendency to shoot upstate troopers. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, there was plenty of hysteria mixed in with the wisteria as Massa Zachary Scott kept mooning about the veranda of his columned home while trying to make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose...