Word: hysteria
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...London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square), stood nightly rooftop vigil as a volunteer fire warden. Eventually, he worked himself up to division manager, "hating every minute of it" except for his rounds to the store's hairdressing salon, where, he recalls dryly, "the atmosphere of hysteria reminded me of opera...
...Korean who has lived through WW II, the current events in Red China [Sept. 2] are too vividly reminiscent of the prewar hysteria in Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. Both regimes sought scapegoats in what were considered to be foreign elements in their cultural, economic, religious and racial framework, and sought to justify their war effort as a national crusade against them. If the current frenzy in Red China is indeed the sign of a country preparing for war, God help...
Tears of Joy. What it might mean to China's friends or China's neighbors-from Moscow to Washington-was a matter of grave concern. The world's oldest continuous civilization has al ways proved an enigma to the rest of the world. In its current hysteria, China remains a puzzlement. The pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place last week in the nation's streets...
...reached a point of critical decision. Should it forge ahead with fanatical zeal or yield to creeping conservatism? Just as the French Revolution attempted to rejuvenate itself through successive waves of terror and the Stalin period of the Russian Revolution tried to find new inspiration through purges and mass hysteria, Mao is attempting the same thing through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But sheer will power, even when wielded by men as fanatically dedicated as Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao, rarely wins out over the historical thrust of a people and culture as strong as China...
...Tufts University, recalls a four-year-old girl who could read, but "all other aspects of her development were neglected. She did not want to play, was not popular, and withdrew into vicarious experience." Burton White of Harvard's School of Education calls the home-teaching trend "mass hysteria" and "part of the overemphasis on cerebral development...