Word: hysterias
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...sense, the fact that there will be bare patches in the big steel stands is a boost for the judgment of Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell. When the football hysteria was at its height, when the undergraduate editors were shrieking themselves hoarse about overemphasis and when it looked as though the demand for seats and more seats would never be satiated, plans were drawn for a Stadium that would seat 120,000. But Dr. Lowell said, in effect: "Build in the open end of your Stadium, put in a permanent structure, but don't worry about handling more people than...
...older man on a young man in his own sybaritic image, the boy's sensual dependence on the luxuries the older man supplies. James Dale plays an elderly feline exquisite with a soul of catgut; Laurence Olivier plays a fickle and selfish young toady with an hysteria never seen on the playing fields of Eton...
...vulgarity or that I will in nay way bolster the NRA I difficult indeed to see. Actually, what is happening is simply that the NRA is sinking to the grubby level of the back-clapping, hand-wrenching Rotarian, and will presently descend to the more congenial state of shrieking hysteria; it will thus attain to a shrill crescendo of asininity. The effect of the whole thing is comparable to that produced by a firecracker exploding in a bowl of whipped cream; by this time the worthy General Johnson must feel something like a well-used intellectual fingerbowl...
...loan that in the judgment of its officers it should not make, but I do think that in the new era we must get away from an exclusive investment or collateral lending policy and return to a basis of commercial lending. The period of fear is gone. The hysteria is past." To the convention with stronger language-language much less attuned to bankers' sensibilities-came R. F. C. Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, big-nosed politico-industrialist from Texas. Said he: "Hoarders of available credit are little better than hoarders of currency. You are afraid of a recurrence of conditions...
Sometimes the masculine author of this masculine book speaks in propria persona: "Historically the increasing dominance of woman is marked by emotionalism and revolution, romanticism, feminism triumphant, hysteria. The end is either a return to the balance, a reaction where the man reasserts his authority in the family, or anarchy. The paternal state, which tries to be Our-father-which-art-on-earth, is always accompanied by the loss of the subtle qualities of fatherhood in individual men. When patriotism becomes matriotism, nature and force reassert themselves in human affairs. Sympathy has been mistaken for the truth...