Word: hysteria
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FROM THE PEOPLE who brought you Lamont Library comes this addled admixture of hysteria and laborious detail called Campus Shock, which leaves you with what Daniel Webster called that "miserable interrogatory": "What is all this worth?" Well, not a whole lot. Lansing Lamont '52 has written a book which will be noteworthy, if at all, only in the quickness of its declension to the Remainder Heap over at Barnes & Noble, or its ability to heat a small room at Fahrenheit...
Hysteroid dysphoria (literally meaning "hysteria-like discomfort") was considered last year for inclusion in the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual, but was rejected for lack of evidence. Klein, director of research for the New York State Psychiatric Institute, is convinced that lovesickness is real enough. Says he: "These people, mostly women, are not true depressives or manic-depressives. They are so vulnerable that they are driven to repeat their love cycles over and over...
...film's charm lies in the breathless sense of discovery that infuses every shot, heightened with each passing reel. It's something Dino De Laurentiis' repulsive, self-conscious, exploitive remake never touches. And it's as good now, because today so much of it--Fay Wray's hysteria, the chases, Max Steiner's delightful but overdone score--seems tongue-in-cheek. And we got to suspend our disbelief. Really suspend it. Until we're yanked in. "'Twas Beauty killed the Beast," says Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) at the end of the movie, and the purity of this epitaph is convincing...
...reflection, rather than a cause, of the preoccupation with disaster. Roy Peter Clark, an English professor at Auburn University, links the spread of millenarian fever with the approaching end of a true millenium-the year 2000. Says he: "We must prepare ourselves for the mass psychological hysteria, the conscious or unconscious sense of terror that may build to a climax." Others, like Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm, say that love of calamity shows a sense of alienation and powerlessness that seeks release through images of destruction...
...gave him a handshake instead of a warm Latin embrace. No matter. It seemed as if at least half of the 13 million people who live in greater Mexico City had turned out to welcome him with an overwhelming display of warmth. Along his motor route, there was near hysteria in spots as nuns and urbanites alike jostled to get a glimpse of the Polish-born visitor. Business and traffic came to a standstill...