Word: hysteria
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Ethan Tucker's column on study hysteria and sleep depravation entitled "Sleepless in Cabot" (Opinion, January 6, 1996) was a terriffic assessment of a popular issue amongst students...
Perish the thought! Or, to be more precise, if that thought took root, what would perish would be America's economic health. To a remarkable extent, our mass prosperity rests upon a base of annual hysteria...
...same one faced by jurors in Toronto in the 1840s: to what extent was Grace Marks, a pretty, nearly 16-year-old servant girl, guilty of the murder of her employer, Thomas Kinnear? And to what extent was she guiltless, or only partly responsible, because of some combination of hysteria, emotional weakness (she was, after all, female and little more than a child) and mental illness--or outright lunacy...
...Academie Francaise's much-publicized hysteria over the bastardization of the French language by Americanisms is only the tip of France's long-standing obsession with language. In the 18th-century court portrayed in "Ridicule," the skillful manipulation of language is the sole means of gaining and keeping social status. The world of Versailles is shaped by what they refer to as "wit." Lest one believe that this wit is based on the crass premise of merely producing amusement, one French noble dismisses disdainfully the "hew-mah" of the English as being far inferior to French...
...dwindling band of zealous believers, Hiss was one of the first victims of anticommunist hysteria, an American Dreyfus. Yet the weight of historical evidence indicates that Hiss was what he steadfastly denied ever being: a member of the communist underground and a Soviet spy. What made his case so intriguing was that his profile seemed at odds with the stereotypical idea of a grubby turncoat. His patrician grace had somehow survived a family life streaked with tragedy. His father, a wholesale grocer, committed suicide when Alger was two; a sister, Mary, also killed herself. Yet Hiss's advancement in life...