Word: hysterias
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...world has been through a period of hysterical excitements and stark realism," announced Musicomedy Dancer Ray Bolger, as quoted by rococo Litterateur Lucius Beebe. "Now it seems only natural that people should want a contrast to modernity and hysteria, and the placidity and ordered mannerisms of Victorianism supply that contrast...
...written by a man under a deep spell, as if Caldwell himself were aware that something was the matter, and simply did not know what to do about it. Its prose has the glassy, elaborately monotonous decor of the language of hypnosis, beneath which the reader can sense the hysteria of someone trying to re-establish communication with the world. In what is obviously a rigorous act of will rather than the product of a freely flowing imagination, Caldwell puts his characters through his standard novelistic paces without once indicating what motivating idea or feeling can possibly be behind them...
Neatly Mimeographed handouts disclosed that the delegates had adopted a platform which 1) blamed Wall Street and bipartisan "atomic diplomacy" for war hysteria; 2) called the Soviet Union "the strongest bulwark for peace." As predicted, the platform came out as the prototype of the Wallace Progressive Party platform. There was only one deviation. Henry Wallace thought "progressive capitalism" could be saved; the Communists believed that any kind of capitalism was a flop, not worth salvaging...
...South Africa the calmest man seemed to be the new Prime Minister himself. Peering, paunchy Daniel Malan took a full week to form his government, while partisans cheered in hysteria and the opposition waited on tenterhooks...
Last week the waiting was over, but some of the hysteria lingered on. Established at last in the official Capetown residence Groote Schuur (Big Barn), bequeathed in his will to South Africa's Prime Ministers by Anglophile Cecil Rhodes, Anglophobe Malan had named a cabinet to match the opposition's worst fears: not a single representative of South Africa's English-speaking groups. Several of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime...