Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could relate things only in terms of her religion ?but she had a focal point for all her energy." Sociologist Andrew Greeley calls Catholic Pentecostalism the "most vital movement in Catholicism right now," but warns that it could become "just pure emotion, even a form of hysteria." The Rev. George Peters of the United Presbyterian Church says of the Jesus People: "I see dangers. This biblical literalism. The kids quote verses without understanding them to prove a point. I thought we'd outgrown that. I'd like to see some kind of form...
...Lubitsch comedy; it is blind to Depression breadlines. It catches the shapely legs of Rita Hayworth in 1944's hot pants but neglects the 500,000 U.S. war casualties of that year. It is amused by the crew cuts and slang of 1953 but forgets the anti-Communist hysteria and the fear that followed detonation of Russia's first hydrogen bomb...
...Peking back to reality was Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the fear that the Brezhnev Doctrine - that the Soviet Union has the right to intervene in any socialist state deviating from its brand of Communism - might be applied to China. War hysteria swept the country after border fighting broke out with the Soviets at the Ussuri River and in Sinkiang...
...coalition of military men and relatively moderate administrators led by Chou Enlai. While the army deals with the giant task of repairing the domestic fabric, Chou runs the central government and foreign policy, free for the first time in years from internal politics and the supercharged atmosphere of Maoist hysteria. No outsider knows Mao's personal role, but Western analysts generally assume that he is probably overseeing the army's domestic reorganization program and that his trust in Chou is almost total. At any rate, both the army and Mao seem willing to give the suave patrician...
...fear of China that froze most Asian capitals in the 1960s is rapidly melting away. The failures of Chinese-supported insurgencies in Indonesia and Malaysia have considerably deflated China's reputation as an international troublemaker. Moreover, since the end of the Cultural Revolution with all its attendant hysteria and xenophobia, China has steadily moved toward what Indonesia's Foreign Minister Adam Malik approvingly calls "sensible moderation...