Word: hysteria
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...Australia, where they live on scraps of bitter memory and paranoid imaginings of a comparably tumultuous future. Although they appear to be part of the vast middle-class world in their adopted country, there is an untouchable inwardness in their spirits, and eventually they retreat into armed-survivalist hysteria...
...Forster's A Room with a View is like A Passage to India in miniature. But in his later novel, the sexual hysteria loosed in Miss Quested by her visit to an exotic land results in major melodrama. Lucy's milder--and curable --case of the same malaise creates only a delightful Wildean farce. At least that's all it does in this movie version of Forster's minor and diverting novel. The formality of James Ivory's style suits this spirit admirably, counterpointing and controlling the theatrical overplaying he encourages among his players. Maggie Smith as Lucy's dithering...
...make "any big decisions . . . without taking a day to think it over." At a forum on the suicides, parents and others shouted down Psychiatrist John Florian Riedler with such comments as "I once tried to commit suicide, years ago. No one ever tried to help me." Said Riedler: "Hysteria swept over this part of town last week...
During the past year, the public has been deluged with misinformation and preoccupied with the stigma of "high-risk groups." In the face of the hysteria, the fears, the reactions and ramifications, the Festival of Life comes as a positive contribution--not trying to explain what has happened or reassure us about the future, but focusing our attention on the present, the reality of what we can do for people in need...
...Crimson has done us all a disservice by printing Mr. Wise's ramblings. The Crimson has chosen to print, on more than one occasion, badly researched articles that increase AIDS hysteria, rather than inform the public. There is no excuse for this anyone. Jake Stevens...