Word: hysteria
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...life, one out of eleven American women will be told she has breast cancer. The dread of this moment is perhaps the single biggest fear that women have about their health. For Nina Miller, 42, of Santa Cruz, Calif., it happened two years ago. Her reaction was typical: "Total hysteria. My only thought was, they're going to mutilate my body, and then I'm going to die." But Miller has lost neither her life nor her breast. Like a small but growing number of breast-cancer patients in the U.S., she avoided a mastectomy and instead...
...survey cites the anonymous comments of tenured male faculty members, such as, "Much of the harassment bit is due to the feminist hysteria." Such comments underscore the need for concerted University action and education. If Dean Rosovsky was not surprised, he, like many others in this community, should be outraged...
...unusual between the sexes, and are not, in and of themselves, a bad thing. However, when one turns to the comments included in the survey report, a more troubling picture emerges. It's not simply that a tenured male faculty member attributes attention to sexual harassment to "feminist hysteria." Nor does it stop at defensive remarks that sexual harassment complaints are "fabricated", or comments decrying "reverse sexual harassment"--overtures from students...
...number of press accounts, especially a Boston Globe piece on the unscrupulous KAL organization--have pointed out, the issue can be colored in many shades. However, the conclusions reached by some in the media have proven to be even more groundless than the initial hysteria that provoked them...
...Worlds by H. G. Wells (no relative). Author Wells's classic pseudo-scientific thriller about how the men from Mars invade earth in a flying cylinder was first published in 1898. That its broadcast on Halloween Eve 1938 caused something pretty close to national hysteria was not entirely due to the timelessness of the Wells story, the persuasive microphone technique of Orson ("The Shadow") Welles or the stupidity of the U. S. radio audience. Recent concern over a possible European Armageddon has badly spooked the U. S. public...