Word: hysteria
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...hospitals in the past year. In turn, manufacturers have difficulty meeting their contracts and are scrambling to increase output. Says John Strong, president of Health Care Materials Corp.: "Hospitals are within two to three days of not being able to do certain procedures." Industry sources say an element of hysteria has led some hospital employees who have no direct patient contact, like maintenance workers, to begin wearing gloves on the job. Other health-care workers are "double gloving" and in some cases wearing three layers of latex...
...sorts of good news about Good Morning, Vietnam, in which these two semifictional figures meet and merge. The film is the best military comedy since M*A*S*H disbanded. The reason is that it is not afraid to work the extremes. Sometimes it is on the edge of hysteria. At others it can approach the fringe of sentiment. But wherever it stands, it is surefooted and strong- minded -- no easy laughs, no easy tears...
...Undergraduate Council and House Committees, says Lichtman, are "stockpiling, survivalist-like, condoms on house basements and across campus," an action which "can only heighten AIDS hysteria." This is an unfair mischaracterization. In deciding on laundry rooms and similar locations, the UC and House Committees carefully considered the importance of not just providing a service, but of creating an appropriate atmosphere, one which encourages awareness and action but is not offensive or irrational. Ideally, the stigma associated with condoms, whether humorous or distasteful, will be slowly dispelled as their presence becomes commonplace. Two condom dispensers in a house can successfully strike...
ACENTURY after Gilbert and Sullivan mocked the aesthetic hysteria of the 1880s, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Society has set Patience in the beatnik 1950s. Since this opera is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's least scintillating, the "beat poet" approach would seem a guaranteed descent into idiocy...
...been abused by some to further their own, selfish ends. Take condom manufacturers. All of a sudden it's acceptable for condoms to be advertised on television and in full-page newspaper ads. Johnny Carson can make jokes about them and get laughs in Middle America. AIDS hysteria has been a Trojan Horse, if you will, through which the marketing gurus of the prophylactic industry have boosted public acceptance and sales of their product...