Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the announcement of the U.S.-endorsed cease-fire plan, most people in Cairo seemed resigned to a new round of fighting, but there was no hysteria, no jingoism. Even with Americans, who are blamed for giving Israel the weapons that allowed its armies to cross the Suez Canal, Cairenes are patient and polite. "All we want is to have our own land back, and then everybody can live in peace," says one woman. "Tell the Americans that we want to make peace and finish with all this war," says the custodian of a cemetery in the Coptic quarter...
...Hart wants so much to succeed, since Bridges does not portray the origin or meaning of his ambition. His last, too easy gesture of mocking his achievement thus looks not only frivolous and empty-headed but contemptuous. It means that the students brought themselves to the edge of hysteria for nothing, that one tried to kill himself for nothing, that we were manipulated into caring about it all for nothing...
...Freud. The great alienist, he imagines, met his rival Jung one day while strolling in Vienna. Freud felt faint, swooned, and sat down in the dust. Jung, much concerned, offered analysis: "We clear the air, eh, Sigmund? Ah yes, your passing out was a good thing. Hysterical. Yes. Hysteria neurosis. But a good thing." Freud blamed the fall on slippery leaves. " 'You passed out!' Carl insisted. 'Admit it. I know a shlip when I see one ... believe me, it was a healthy thing.' " Freud, much affronted, said that he would decide what was healthy...
...Democratic Society (SDS), said reporting by The Globe and The Boston Herald American of the burning death of Evelyn Wagler Tuesday night and the stabbling death of Louis Barba on Thursday "made it look like blacks were on the rampage" and contributed to the spread of anti-black hysteria throughout the city...
Blake's performance is blunt and highly charged; Mitchell Ryan is tensely controlled except for a regrettable mad scene. But everyone else in the cast has apparently confused energy with volume, intensity with hysteria. The result might most kindly be described as dissonant. Even a record producer should have been able to spot do that. a longhair a favor, he gets blasted