Word: hysterias
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Very Healing Guy. The man his friends call Ock is 6 ft. 1½ in. of unassuming reticence. He has a shy smile that creeps out from under an almost constant frown. He walks slowly, with gangling dignity, like a freshman playing a Roman emperor. In a business where hysteria is honorable and neuroticism normal, he seems completely untemperamental. Baffled by normalcy as heathen are baffled by saintliness, show people from Sardi's to Giro's see him in an unearthly glow. Says Razzmatazzman Billy Rose: "What do I think about him? That's like asking...
...Virginia game still had its repercussions yesterday, especially for those who went south. It all started Monday night when this weary scribe made his helated return upon a scene of near hysteria. Lost was any chance of writing a simple story about the football game. Harassed reporters, most of whom had stayed in Boston, converged from all directions with their own bits of vital news gathered from the usual reliable sources...
...small voice in the corner mentioned that Wally Flynn and Jack Guidera were playing fullback and a chorus of voices with four days of intersectional indoctrination chorused, "Man, ah reckon you're crazier 'on some of them damn Yankees." The hysteria set in again...
...murder, but only two years later the Encyclopedia Britannica recorded that ". . . public opinion of the world felt the execution had taken place less upon the evidence than for the crime of holding extreme opinions." Today there is a more insidious movement spreading over the nation than the red hysteria that engulfed the early twenties. "The crime of holding extreme opinions" becomes a graver offense each day as more and more individuals do not express their true political beliefs for fear of economic and social organization...
...Unless they are stopped, the present methods of fighting communism and socialism by whipping up hysteria and invoking systems of thought control will give us a police state here. We cannot preserve and improve our system of democratic capitalism by undermining our high standard for human rights and civil liberties...