Word: hysterias
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While Russian students kill themselves in despair, the Soviet government designs prodigious schemes for restoring the prosperity and public welfare that its economic hysteria has destroyed. With the utmost enthusiasm, Lenine recently proposed the electrification of the whole gigantic country. The plan is now to build a huge fleet of airships, for a multitude of purposes. In view of the "bad state of the highways and railway lines", the airships could be used advantageously for postal express and passenger service; also "to combat epidemics, to help the weather man, to aid fishing industries, and form closer contact with remote villages...
...heroic biography, are less liable to exercise them in real life. What the Freudians call a " compensation mechanism " is set up by trashy literature which dissipates the energy of the impulses which might otherwise be seriously translated into action. Not that cheap reading is a cure for hysteria, for the great mass of people are probably irremediably twisted and warped emotionally by these complexes anyway, but it is rendered less intense and harmful. In fact, in a later essay Shaw has admitted that if the public appetite for murder, cruelty, romantic love and heroics were not stupefied from time...
...writer gives a marvellous picture of a camp-meeting, with enthusiasm passing into 'glossolalia' and hysteria. If not drawn from life, it is based on singularly good knowledge of religious psychology...
...trial and "the queue" was outside the "Old Bailey" in London. In America such a statement would be merely a matter of passing interest and amusement to most mortals, and only for a few reformers and very respectable dailies would "the whole furore" become a "noxious sing of the hysteria of the times...
...real treason; their death was brought about by mad, mistaken patriotism on the part of a people gone hysterical. What of Illinois? There too, it can be said with good reason that the charges against the millionaire radical and his associates were due in part to national war hysteria...