Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purported CIA paper, and sought a court injunction to prevent Capital from printing the article. Citing "new information," the magazine promptly decided not to publish. By then, the episode had generated such a furor that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt worried aloud that West Germany might be succumbing to "spy hysteria...
...Nollau caper suggests that some right-wing West Germans, with their own political reasons for wanting to discredit Brandt's successors, have decided that spy hysteria can be as useful to them as it is to the Communists...
...generation of younger photographers whose sensibilities are roused by the urban mess, from trash to glitter. Adams' work is criticized for being indifferent to the flow of historical time and documentary "relevance," a recognized exception being the photos he took of Japanese Americans persecuted in the anti-Nisei hysteria during World...
...Committee Against Racism (CAR) has been holding forums all year to oppose the wave of academic racist theories emanating recently from campuses all around the country. Now, in Boston, the real danger of such ideas has become apparent. Notions of black inferiority are being used to whip up racist hysteria around the issue of integration, while the struggle of black and white parents for a decent public education for their children is severely threatened...
...always admired eccentrics. Eminent disregard for the conventional exposes our ridiculousness and negates this world's power to produce migraines, ulcers and hysteria. Contact with a true eccentric is essential to maintaining one's sanity. The few eccentrics I've known have rescued me from the brink of self-destruction. Eccentrics hang drying pumpkin and apple slices from their livingroom ceilings. They know the words to "God Save the Czar." They are experts on the Hapsburgs. They wear Wallabees. And, if they happened to have been extremely rich and Bostonian in the 1890s, they built Venetian palaces...