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...March fourth next, he will assume his now duties with the overwhelming approval of a sovereign people. His party will control Congress by large majorities; his personal victory will go down in history as one of the greatest landslides ever, recorded by a Democratic candidate. The fog and hysteria of a campaign have dissipated before cold numbers; the Digest Poll is again right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW LAMPS FOR OLD | 11/9/1932 | See Source »

...Henry Dewlip in "Spring-time for Henry," in a CRIMSON interview between the acts at the Wilbur Theatre last night. "I enjoy my part in this play immensely because the production is a kind of tonic that America needs. Our country has fallen into a state of morbid hysteria over the depression that we must overcome. The fun never flags in this skit, and the larger the number of Americans who can learn to laugh whole-heartedly again, the greater will be the chances of emerging from the present depression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "What This Country Needs is a Good, Hearty Laugh," States Henry Hull, Star Player of Farce, "Springtime for Henry" | 10/28/1932 | See Source »

...Stirner reasoned, Thomas Carlyle panegyrized and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche thundered, Alfred Adler demonstrates the Ego. Early this century he was a disciple of great Sigmund Freud, used to join with other disciples at the Freud home. Psychoanalysis was a new, amazing tool which Dr. Freud invented to analyze hysteria, mental kinks, nervous twists of all sorts. Most of the company agreed with Dr. Freud's pontifical decision that suppression was the main source of neuroses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: I on Long Island | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...press and governmental agencies in their dealings with the case. The unreasoning outburst, all too characteristic of American political opinions, has seen fit to employ the terms "red" and "radical" to denote all political extremists. Possibly the confusion is justified, but to the average onlooker it appears founded on hysteria, not upon any understanding of party demarcations. It is a sad commentary or a great portion of the American press that, instead of educating its public to form substantiated opinions, it panders almost entirely to irrational morbidity and unfair prejudice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMMUNIST MANIFESTO | 10/1/1932 | See Source »

...Though his mind brimmed with strange economic and political questions, he could still vote a second time for Wilson in 1916. Then came the War. It knocked him loose from all his orthodox inheritances and belief. He refused to turn his pulpit into a recruiting station. He combated War hysteria. His patriotic friends turned from him. He gave up his church, found a refuge in the pacifism of the Socialist party. He founded and edited a radical monthly (The World Tomorrow), had a heartbreaking fling at publishing a Labor daily, went on the staff of The Nation for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Repeal Unemployment! | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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