Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed able to ignore or nimbly thrust out of mind repeated symptoms of their out-of-joint economy, like alarming new price rises and further drubbings of the greenback abroad. But last week those distant, or perhaps too familiar, woes hit home, and hard, in a burst of financial hysteria that engulfed markets, speculators and ordinary investors big and small from Wall Street to Main Street...
Which leaves Chris Clemenson, or the real tragedy of On the Lam. Clemenson is a hugely talented actor who can trigger hysteria with any of a dozen subtle expressions or inflections. Predictably, he does not seem all that happy with his role in this show--he ends up like Olivier in any of his recent roles, desperately mugging and overacting to compensate for the script--and maybe a little resentful, a little angry with himself for getting involved in all this. Actually, it's a lot like watching Olivier host Saturday Night Live. Worse, Borowitz and his court...
ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 13--Rapidly imporving sophomore quarterback Mike Buchanan optioned the Cornell defense into hysteria this afternoon leading Harvard to a 27-20 win here at Schoellkopf Field...
...hurricane whose elemental force derived not only from the hatreds of the two Viet Nams and the hysteria of domestic critics, but also from a painful rift between Nixon and me [see box "Chagrined Cowboy"]. In early December, TIME magazine, with the best will in the world, added to earlier irritations by selecting Nixon and me as joint Men of the Year. I knew immediately how this would go down with my chief, whose limited capacity for forgiveness surely did not include being upstaged (and being given equal billing as Man of the Year with his assistant was tantamount...
...this?-the Humanities. Is the conference title a self-contradiction, like "fresh-frozen" or "Young Republican"? The observer, a humanist in a dry season, resolutely programs himself to suppress his real attitude toward computers, which is a feeling of smugness and superiority masking a feeling of inferiority and hysteria. This dates from an episode ten years ago when he was living in Salzburg, Austria, and a computer sent all of his Diners' Club bills by surface mail to Salisbury, Australia, but then unaccountably caught its error each month in time to send the subsequent "pay up or die" threats...