Word-makers
Asked to give their opinions on hijacking psychiatrists have come up with such phrases as “cyclical mass paranoia” and “societal hysteria,” said Alistair Cooke in a recent 8.8. C. broadcast. He added: “This reminds me of an operation I once had on assurance of the surgeon that within 10 days I would be a new man. He was right: I was a new, but not a happier, man. I was scratching myself like a baboon.
“He examined me and looked up with a sunny face. ‘Everything’s fine—all you’re suffering from is post-opera-tive itch." ‘Don’t name it,’ I said, ‘cure it’,”
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33065, 4 November 1972, Page 12
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