Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tears of Joy. What it might mean to China's friends or China's neighbors-from Moscow to Washington-was a matter of grave concern. The world's oldest continuous civilization has al ways proved an enigma to the rest of the world. In its current hysteria, China remains a puzzlement. The pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place last week in the nation's streets...
...reached a point of critical decision. Should it forge ahead with fanatical zeal or yield to creeping conservatism? Just as the French Revolution attempted to rejuvenate itself through successive waves of terror and the Stalin period of the Russian Revolution tried to find new inspiration through purges and mass hysteria, Mao is attempting the same thing through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But sheer will power, even when wielded by men as fanatically dedicated as Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao, rarely wins out over the historical thrust of a people and culture as strong as China...
...Tufts University, recalls a four-year-old girl who could read, but "all other aspects of her development were neglected. She did not want to play, was not popular, and withdrew into vicarious experience." Burton White of Harvard's School of Education calls the home-teaching trend "mass hysteria" and "part of the overemphasis on cerebral development...
Dylan makes this monster function among five-stress lines, inflated by its 17 syllables to of hysteria...
...spite and twitching with revenge than anyone I know of. I actually often, frequently, daily want to see people die for their errors. I wish to kill them myself, to throw the switch with my own fist." There is little that Osborne does not abominate. With passion, grief, and hysteria, he records the unease of all the 20th century's displaced...