Word: hysterias
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...necessary in wartime, but safe because of their acknowledged temporary nature. But even though peacetime infringements of civil liberties often prove more effective in bothering loyal Americans than in crimping the work of Communists skilled in evasion, they are seldom repealed and remain as a permanent monument to hysteria...
...France's Claude Debussy, Germany's Richard Wagner was "that old poisoner" of the pure wells of music. In the 1890's, fuming at the "grandiloquent hysteria" of the Wagnerian heroes-and calling his predecessor "a beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn"-Debussy, singlehanded, set about creating a new anti-Wagnerian style. The result was the only opera he ever finished, Pelléas et Mélisande. Based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, it had a shadowy, once-upon-a-time plot that actually bore a genteel resemblance to Wagner's Tristan...
Three days later, at his regular press conference, President Eisenhower said that the U.S. would be most cautious about doing anything that would create unrest and disaster, or failure or hysteria in a neighboring nation, say, in India. The Administration's effort would be to produce a friendship with the entire subcontinent, not just with one group...
...dangerous to national security, it will have been worth it. If, as is far more probable, it shows that collaboration with Communists was born of depression and the war against Nazism, and died with the Cold War, it will clear up the ignorance upon which much of the present hysteria is based. The American people are not going to ostracize men who, when questioned, admit they signed peace petitions and marched on picket lines for their own sake. Such actions are too much a part of the accepted political ethic. They only want to know whether he did these things...
Object of Horror. Comedy took matters a stage further. Dr. Breuer became so fascinated by Anna's hysteria that Mrs. Breuer grew madly jealous. So Breuer stopped seeing Anna, who promptly flew into "the throes of an hysterical childbirth, the logical termination of a phantom pregnancy that had been invisibly developing in response to Breuer's ministrations...