Word: hysteria
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...know of subversion abroad in our land...It is subversive for commissions like these to spread such hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their minds on public issues . . . this is the destruction of democracy...
...father of three, Beckerman is indulgent toward youthful ecofreaks. "Poor old radical youth; it's hard not to sympathize with them," he sighs. But "pollution hysteria" generated by such studies as The Limits to Growth, he adds sternly, is another example of the odd doom consciousness that has persisted in industrial countries since Thomas Malthus, an early 19th century English clergyman who warned that population would soon outstrip available food supplies. Beckerman does admit to a certain pessimism about the next ten years. He fears unnecessarily slow growth, and blames politicians who deal with inflation by strangling economic expansion...
Promoting Hysteria...
...recombinant DNA [April 18] your reporter quoted me as saying: "Those who claim we are letting loose an Andromeda strain are either hysterics or are trying to wreck a whole new field of research." My actual view is this: "Claims about letting loose an Andromeda strain are promoting public hysteria and may wreck a whole new field of research...
Plans for the demonstration had been viewed with alarm by Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., and with something approaching hysteria by William Loeb, the abrasively conservative editor of the Manchester Union Leader, who likened the protesters to "Nazi storm troopers under Hitler." But when Thomson helicoptered to the site the day after the occupation, he was greeted politely by the demonstrators despite his insistence that they leave. "You have the right to an opinion opposite to that of other people, and you have come to let the world know your side," Thomson told the protesters. "But," he added, "you are violating...