Word: hysterias
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...this a country of free enterprise, courage, risk taking and initiative, or is it in a state of hysteria and fear psychosis?" The question was asked last week by Ohio Lawyer Charles Phelps Taft, 56, brother of the late Senator, in a speech on tariffs at Chicago's World Trade Conference. In answering his own bristling question, Midwesterner Taft let fly at the chemical industry and others who want tariffs kept high. Said...
...Civil Service investigations were conducted did not lend itself any too readily to televised dramatics. The official government statement made in 1952 makes clear the effort to avoid hysteria; "In establishing rules for security in the Civil Service with respect to Communists, Fascists and their fellow-travellers, the British Government has been concerned to protect vital state secrets while at the same time interfering as little as possible with the civil liberties of the individual. In order to do this, a distinction is drawn between secret and non-secret posts. To have associations with Communists or Fascists does...
...spirit. The rich are fleeing the plague in expensive carriages, bribing quarantine officials to let them through. The middle class are incapable of fleeing because they are weighed down by stuffed furniture and bric-a-brac. The poor are working themselves into a state of hysteria by spreading and believing bloodcurdling ru mors. The happy-go-lucky are whoring and boozing in a last, sordid spree; the eccentrics are staging a comic opera and disguising themselves from death by dressing up as Pierrots, Harlequins, Columbines, clowns. One man is getting by (he hopes) insisting that a cholera epidemic does...
...patient glimpses the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun and sets his heart on something at once simpler and more complicated: "I want the second tree from the corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near hysteria. In "The Hour of Letdown," a man enters a bar, plunks down a mechanical brain, and orders rye & water for two. After ingesting a couple of drinks, the wonder machine unnerves the barflies by multiplying 10,862 by 99 in a split second, then caps the stunt by getting behind...
...case on "purely practical grounds." Aside from several curious non-sequiturs in your editorial on Friday, your "practical" argument seems to ignore the fact that McCarthy is not interested in finding whether persons are guilty of violating the law. His only aim is to profit by the current hysteria through victimizing people who hol unpopular beliefs. To give him more names is merely to provide him with more fuel and to aid him in destroying the lives of men and families. The fact that those named would protest their innocence of criminal activity would not hinder McCarthy; his genius lies...