Word: hysterias
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Brimstone & Hysteria. There was plenty to reform. The hill people are fond of a local liquor that approaches 200-proof, and their disregard for God's commandment against adultery makes Hollywood seem puritanical. Incest is common. "I know dozens of cousins who are living together," Jessie Hyde said recently. "I know men who stay with their aunts and girls who stay with their uncles...
Another element equally important is the courage of one's own convictions. Not only a person, but also a university, must have this courage if it will be great. In a time of hysteria, there can be no surrender to the fear and to those who cause...
...Time of the Fire by Marc Brandel (Random House; $3) is a workmanlike portrait of a small American town and its mass hysteria under the terror of a homicidal maniac. The terror and hysteria rise to a high boil when the remains of local women are found neatly decapitated and expertly carved. Before the killer gets his comeuppance, the frigid daughter of one of the town's leading citizens thaws herself out, and town and townsmen are brought to naked life with considerable psychological insight...
...solitary, all-night vigil outside the Palace was given to the world. And [secretly] how we all envied her! To fasten herself with chains to the railings in case she was moved during the night, and then to suffer the disappointment of falling in a fit of hysteria at the sight of a Curtain being pulled open at one of the Palace Windows shortly before seven a.m.! We lived it with you, Mrs. Lightfoote. And you may be sure that the fruits and flowers now arriving daily at your bedside from all parts of Britain are but a small measure...
...retained it, like the sword Excalibur, if he could wrest it from the block and wield it." Presidential words carry great weight, said the ex-President, but they must be backed up by action: "Today there is the same need for a combination of words and action concerning the hysteria about Communism ... It is not the business of Congress to run the agencies of government ... A successful administration is one of strong presidential leadership. Weak leadership-or no leadership-produces failure, often disaster...