Word: hysterias
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...lived in the Gothic Middle Ages-and I am thinking not only of the skyline with its painted towers, gates and walls . . . the crooked, haunted-looking alleys. ... In the atmosphere itself something had clung of ... the hysteria of the dying Middle Ages, something of latent spiritual epidemic. It's a strange thing to say about a sensibly sober, modern commercial city, but it was conceivable that a Children's Crusade might suddenly erupt there-in short, an anciently neurotic substratum was perceptible...
Sixty Days. Immediate reaction in the U.S. and Britain was approval. The plan contained no statement or policy which could not have been uttered two months ago. But its virtue was the obvious virtue that, after months of hysteria and confusion, a statement had been made; at last there was an Anglo-American agreement for the rest of the world to accept or reject...
...Nazi elite were gathering again at Nürnberg. But the old Parteitag pomp and mass hysteria were gone. This time the leaders had to make their speeches in prison cells, where they awaited trial by the United Nations War Crimes Commission for being Nazis and starting the war. Most of them were hard at work on their defense. Chances were they would claim to be guilty only of German patriotism...
Thus Britain's first printer concluded his Hysteria of Reynart the Foxe, translated from a Flemish-Dutch epic poem (already 200 years old) recounting the adventures of one of folklore's most attractive rascals...
...Hysteria from Moscow. Wanted as badly by the Spanish Government as Laval was wanted by France was a commuter who stepped off a plane in Paris last week. Plain, plump Dolores Ibarruri, 50, better known as La Pasionaria ("The Passion Flower") and Republican Spain's most uninhibited orator, was returning from Moscow for the first time since 1939. In Moscow she had been a member of the executive committee of the Communist International and heroine of a Soviet play, Salud España, which closed there because the leading lady "could only make Dolores interesting by making her hysterical...