Word: hysteria
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...students first confuse the rational practice of condemning certain war-time policies with the extreme one of blacklisting those who them. It is historical biologist that has created the that the was wrong, that should have that the Nazi sentence should not have been command, but at the time hysteria in wartime and fear of afterwards led to a general agreement in the opposite...
...mass phenomenon." A Palestinian health official agreed, concluding that while the first 20% of the cases were probably caused by the inhalation of some kind of gas, the remaining 80% were basically psychosomatic. As Director-General Modan put it, "We don't want to call it hysteria for fear we will create hysteria." A more fundamental problem is that even if the epidemic really was a case of mass hysteria, few Palestinian Arabs in the emotion-charged West Bank were likely to believe...
According to Ford, somatizing disorders take many forms, including hysteria, malingering, chronic pain and hypochondriasis. The hypochondriac is preoccupied with the fear of having a serious disease. Some doctors refer to the treatment of hypochondriacs, or "crocks," as "psychoceramic medicine" and the recitation of their histories as "organ recitals." Other somatizers sometimes deliberately fake illness, going so far, for example, as to rub a thermometer on a bedsheet to produce a fever, lacerate the skin to create lesions, or overuse laxatives to disrupt the gastrointestinal tract. In the bizarre Munchausen syndrome, which, according to one estimate, affects...
...Rachel shuttles between Washington and Manhattan, she oscillates between hysteria and impartial reportage. But if she is contradictory as a character, she is consistent as an alter ego. Nora Ephron once imagined herself as a "wallflower at the orgy, . .. everyone else is having a marvelous time, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all." It was a premonitory passage. Here she is in 1983, everybody sleeping around like characters in a Restoration play, while she records the events with misery and wit. At times her comedy seems borrowed...
HORROR AND HYSTERIA are the recurring keynotes in Christopher Durang's Baby with the Buthwater: like his Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, this latest work both shocks and entertains. But unlike Sister Mary it fails to fully, combine the two. The most pointed insights in Baby are not funny, and many of its best jokes seem incidental to the main plot. Baby seems almost to contain two separate plays. The first act and initial scenes of the second provide a satire of American family life; the rest of the play deals with the problems of an individual...