Word: hysterias
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...next hour, the authorities' amazement grew. Evelyn Jane Jordan was suffering from hysteria and epilepsy. She said she had recently given birth to premature twins who had died, and confessed, almost incoherently, to an unreasoning desire to have a baby of her own. She described going from hospital to hospital until she had a chance to steal one. But for all her irrationality she had treated the baby, with love and kindness...
Harvard has taken great pride in its reputation as a liberal and democratic institution. If this pride is not to turn to hypocrisy, Harvard must not submit to the increasing pressures of the cold war hysteria and conform to all the anti-democratic criteria which would be necessary to prove to the McCarthys and Mundts that it isn't a Communist school. If Harvard is to maintain its stand on democracy, one of the first important steps is the realization that full equality between men and women is an essential principle of democracy. The fact that Radcliffe has no faculty...
...saucers. After evaluating more than 200, the Air Force concluded: "Reports of unidentified flying objects are the result of: 1) misinterpretation of various conventional objects [such as weather balloons, meteors, targets and the planet Venus, which can sometimes be seen in daytime]; 2) a mild form of mass hysteria; or 3) hoaxes." Although Project Saucer has been abandoned, the Air Force continues to study reports, has found nothing to change its conclusions. In his column last week, David Lawrence hinted darkly that there was more to the Project Saucer reports than the Air Force admitted: "Nobody on the outside...
...still making the rounds. Why is the press ready to print, and the public to believe, such fantastic tales? Said Admiral Gallery last week: "If you'll look back about 500 years ago, you'll find that the people of England had a period of hysteria, when everybody was seeing flying dragons in the sky. We are going through the modern version of flying dragons...
...Whatever may befall us and our world, we affirm our unwavering faith in God's faithfulness . . . Our faith in His constancy must save us from fear and hysteria which confuse us and prevent us from doing what we ought...