Word: hysteria
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...After Hysteria. The Maysles brothers, a pair of experienced makers of documentary films, had been following the Stones around the country making a film of their tour. At the time of the killing, their cameras were both close enough to get the beginning of the murder on film, and far enough removed from the whole rock and youth scene to put the event into some perspective. The result is a strong, remorseless but sensationalized documentary called Gimme Shelter, in which the Maysles and their skillful co-director Charlotte Zwerin attempt to give both a narrative and journalistic structure...
Nixon should hesitate before he rushes into this campaign of war hysteria and duplicity: assassination, air piracy, and genocide are serious offenses, and the North Vietnamese are not the only people who may one day be held "personally responsible...
...Washington, Sherman R. Knapp, president of the Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc., denounced "sudden hysteria" over the environmental impact of nuclear power plants. While conceding that the nation's 17 existing "nukes" discharge heat (he said low-level radiation is under control), Knapp declared that "there is not a single case of thermal emission seriously damaging the ecology." He particularly decried conservationists' lawsuits that block the growth of nuclear plants. Those who hinder power generation, Knapp said, only guarantee "ever darkening skies and diminishing amounts of fossil fuel resources-or an even more hazardous environmental threat, insufficient electricity...
...Outlaw is part of a Cambridge based media collective of 14 papers, which includes the New Old Mole, and Hysteria, a women's Itberation publication...
Most of this fall's successful candidates for congress, and especially for the Senate, stayed near the middle of the road and addressed the Social Issue firmly but without hysteria. Adlai Stevenson III pinned an American flag to his lapel, reminded voters of his sponsorship of anti-crime bills, and lined up the chief prosecutor of the Chicago Seven as his co-chairman. By contrast, his opponent, Republican Senator Smith, ran a smear campaign and refused to reject the support of the John Birch Society. California dumped flamboyant ultra-conservative Max Rafferty and George Murphy in favor of Riles Wilson...