Word: hysteria
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...lies at a special session of the U.N. General Assembly) that they believes the airliner was a tool of Western espionage. Moreover, they claim it was the West who engineered such a blatant provocation and that the United States was guilty of inciting a global wave of anti-Soviet hysteria...
...crossed. The movies told us so. Now audiences are to be instructed in the exemplary lives of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Sure they were convicted and executed for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. But we know that the 1950s were a time of anti-Red hysteria; the sitting judge on the Rosenberg case might have been Joe McCarthy. How do we know? Daniel tells us so. Alas for Sidney Lumet, history hangs like a crape cloud over his new film. The Rosenberg File, just published to a chorus of raves, scrupulously documents Julius Rosenberg...
Your article shows how AIDS is giving the enemies of lesbians and gay men seemingly justifiable reason to perpetuate the discrimination that has been practiced against these groups. The unwarranted hysteria now taking place over AIDS makes it imperative that state and federal governments enact laws immediately to safeguard the rights of lesbians and gay men in employment, housing, medical care and social services...
...outbreak of an epidemic* can provoke a primal panic by raising the specter of a rampant "Andromeda strain." Indeed, perhaps the most severe side effect of AIDS has been the largely unwarranted hysteria that has accompanied the syndrome (see following story). In order to allay fears that AIDS is widely contagious, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler last week visited the Warren Magnuson Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., where she shook hands with AIDS victims and sat at their bedsides. Said Heckler: "What's just as bad as the disease is the fear of the disease. The fear...
...evening. "My first thought was that they wanted to send me somewhere," she recalls. They did. Soon she was in the Israeli-occupied West Bank investigating a mysterious malady afflicting young Palestinian schoolgirls. Miller and Israeli health officials concluded that the problem was caused by a wave of hysteria; it soon disappeared...