Word: hysterias
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...being subjected to a labyrinth of ballyhoo, unequaled in my memory, of admiration of a man who is very easy to admire, and denunciation of another man who is all too easy to denounce, of pseudoauthoritative editorial comment ... I was gladdened when the clear light of TIME penetrated the hysteria and gave someone who wants to think something upon which to base his thoughts...
...that a world conflict might "destroy the entire body of the world." We in China do not share this fear. All the people I have spoken to about the atom bomb, from illiterate peasants to college professors, have no fear of the bomb. I have thus far seen no hysteria to compare with that of the U. S. just before I left. It is true that we have no intentions or wishes to to fight a world war. It would set our industrial output (now exceeding pre-Japanese war China) many years back. It would result in the death...
...have to tell you this, but your child is a mongolian, a type of mental defective," and then launched at once into summary advice about "custodial care" for the child's lifetime. It took Family Doctor Truman's best bedside manner to stop the mother's hysteria-and a careful course of consultations to convince the parents that the pediatrician was medically right, if humanly wrong...
...some time, and the latest bloom, H. 426, is bigger and more inclusive than ever. Some people pass it off as an annual publicity stunt, which may be correct, But Paul W. McCarthy is a clever man and he did not write H. 426 in a fit of hysteria. Despite his bill's many drawbacks, he has strong support at the State House...
Third, the hysteria around the country, especially in universities, has become more intense with the progressive deterioration in East-West relations. There are few assurances that liberties taken for granted today will still be operative tomorrow, and any expression of devotion to free speech is highly welcome...