Word: hysteria
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...left the State Department in 1947 and became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace-epitomized the best and brightest of Roosevelt's New Dealers. The accusations against him seemed an indictment of a whole political era, as well as a harbinger of McCarthyite anti-Red hysteria. For conservatives (among them President Reagan, who awarded Chambers a posthumous Medal of Freedom earlier this year), the case had a different meaning. Along with Chambers' harrowing tales of life in the Red underground and his considerable eloquence, the affair dramatized the evils of Communism and the peril its infiltration...
...criminals, not academics! The U.S. ruling class (including the Harvard elite) is on a campaign to drape these butchers in academic robes and shove them down the throats of students in order to make mass murder "respectable," overcome the "Vietnam syndrome" and whip up anti-Soviet war hysteria...
...made its debut in Japan last January, there were grumbles among Japanese Americans, U.S. diplomats and Americans living in Japan. As early as last May, the Japanese Foreign Ministry received alarms from its embassy in Washington. The diplomats relayed fears of Japanese Americans that dredging up the anti-Japanese hysteria of 1942 would damage relations between the two countries, especially at a time of friction over Japanese-American trade. Mike Masaoka, a longtime Washington public relations man whose clients include large Japanese firms and American companies doing business in Japan, pointed out in a letter to Japanese officials: "It could...
...hysteria continued for the better part of the next five hours, with groups of drunken people screaming. "Hoya!" and "Sazal" at one another, across rooms, across streets, across the whole campus...
...book which is surprisingly interesting and readable, given its heavy documentation. Masson attempts to show why Freud abandoned his earlier seduction theory in favor of theories which emphasized the role of fantasies in producing neuroses. In 1896, a controversial paper Freud called "the Aetiology of Hysteria" proposed that childhood "seduction" was the root cause of most human problems in later life. This interpretation was criticized by other psychiatrists, and ten years later Freud renounced his seduction theory. Traditional psychoanalytic history holds that this abandonment was necessary for the development of Freud's pathbreaking theories of the Oedipus complex and infantile...