Word: hysterias
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...were going a bit mad. I declared that this was a weakness of the academic mind in war time--in America, exactly as in England and Germany. I pointed out that the officers and teachers of Harvard University a good majority of them, were leading the van of war hysteria, and wild emotion which ill became what is accepted as trained intellgence. I bade the students in these hectic times not to take their professors too seriously, but to regard their words and deeds with a healthy skepticism. The college faculties were almost unanimously wrong in the last...
...Since then Price has specialized in a sort of incongruity that borders on surrealism. Key to his humor is the casual gravity with which his long-faced, sprain-skulled characters regard the most highly improbable situations. Drawn with a fast line that gives them the appearance of earnest hysteria, his characters look like ailing vegetables...
Time was when the Marx Brothers' talent for violent lunacy whelped the belly-wrinkling hysteria of such superb stage and cinema farces as The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera. Big Store is just the Marx Brothers nostalgically going through the motions of helping Detective Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho Marx), Housekeeper Wacky (Harpo Marx) and Pianist Ravelli (Chico Marx) catch a killer in the bargain basement. Absurdity (as in the incredible chase sequences) is substituted for comedy...
...THESE BONES LIVE-Edward Dahlberg-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A violent blowtorch of poetic anarchy, turned on U.S. literature and such related subjects as the State, materialism, sex, war, tradition, human docility. At its worst it verges on literary hysteria; at its best it has rare eloquence, insight and daring. The book will either bore or infuriate any average law-abider...
...full page appeal for a last stand to prevent American intervention strikes the dominant editorial note, while other editorials applaud the Corporation's position on the Naval Academy incident, support National Anti-Poll Tax Week, and condemn civilian defense preparations as unnecessary and conducive to war hysteria...