Word: hysterias
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...could generally publish anything it wanted when it wanted without submitting it to the Administration; now it cannot. Under the new rules, organizations must also keep a complete membership list always on file at the Dean's Office, though some groups have protested that, with the current Red Scare hysteria, such a system might jeopardize the careers of individual members. The Student Council asked that all these regulations, plus another that forbids appearances on commercial radio and T.V. programs, be junked. The Faculty Committee chose to disregard all of the Council objections, even in those cases where it had power...
...seven weeks, concentration-camp survivors had paraded to the witness stand at Augsburg to accuse Ilse Koch, the "Bitch of Buchenwald," of brutalities. "Lies, all lies," screamed the red-haired widow of the camp's wartime Nazi commander. She had fits of hysteria, smashed up her cell, had to be carried from the courtroom. Doctors insisted that she was faking to avoid punishment for her crimes. Last week three German judges and six jurymen convicted her of inciting the murder of one prisoner, inciting an attempt to murder another. One of the most revolting accusationsthat...
There is a certain amount of football hysteria around the U. during the season. In one case, after the Purdue upset a three-day holiday was declared. Drinking is not permitted on campus, but an air of celebration pervaded nonetheless...
Frank Purcell was willing. But his wife, who seemed on the verge of hysteria, could not bring herself to consent. "It looks like it's more than I can bear," she said, absently wiping away tears. "I don't know. I don't know. I've got to leave it to the Lord...
...things have happened in the past few years in the ideological scene." He is very close to the truth, but the main change, as far as this country is concerned, is in the treatment, rather than the content of ideologies. Universities have been succumbing to the present hysteria against anyone who happens to be unorthodox in his opinions; there is danger that they will soon become entirely rigid as far as ideologies are concerned...