Word: hysterias
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...financial plight of universities, pointing out the ways in which income has fallen and costs have risen. Two contributors discuss student withdrawal from politics and threats to academic freedom respectively. Both articles contain interesting information, but are not too sharp on analysis. Professor William T. LaPrade's article on hysteria--the political, not the psychological, kind--reiterates the stand of the American Association of University Professors on the right to teach, but does not contain much new material...
...aspects of sports and boxing and you'll see what I mean. Seneca was one of the first to speak out against the combat of the gladiators. Isn't there possibly a parallel between the decadence of the declining Roman Empire and our own overemphasis on mass hysteria stimulated by some mass sports...
...political reporter and acting city editor for the Winnipeg Free Press, MacKay covered the 1946-'47 atom spy trials in Ottawa and states that there was very little sensationalism or hysteria associated with the trials...
...Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky (June 30, 1912): "Chronic hysteria pervades the whole lot [of characters] from the point of view of the Western person...
Blasting as "ridiculous" charges by two Northwestern University professors that he was a Chinese Communist sympathizer. Edwin O. Reischauer, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages, characterized current hysteria as "short term." "Right now we're acting like children," he told the forum...