Word: hysteria
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Kelly's lawyer, Thomas Puccio, who successfully appealed the conviction of Claus von Bulow, has labored to convince the jury that the young woman was drunk and the sex consensual. Last week a sexologist said the girl's hysteria could have resulted from guilt and anxiety over her first sexual experience. Several witnesses were grilled about the size of her beer glass. And unless Kelly takes the stand in his own defense, which he has not yet decided to do, the jury may never learn that a second girl, this one 17 at the time, claims that Kelly raped...
Still, I support Braunstein's meeting with Dean Epps. If the University's support for the freedom of the press is placed in plain terms on paper, hopefully, future hysteria can be avoided. In this instance, however, the freedom of the press was not violated...
Indeed, the hysteria that Kirtley, Kelleher and Sozinho are inciting about the adminstration's violation of the freedom of the press is largely specious. Kirtley was not Ad Boarded for writing a column. On the contrary, he was Ad Boarded for making a prank phone call. In other words, the Ad Board does not only consider prank phone calls made for publication a violation of University rules but all such phone calls. If I had been sitting around making prank phone calls for fun and someone reported me, I too would be punished although I never had any intent...
...former speechwriters, in a desperate revisionist effort even sought to excuse one of Agnew's racist comments ("What's the matter with that fat Jap?", directed towards a dozing Japanese-American journalist). Agnew's onetime campaign press secretary, Victor Gold, declared in what must have been a fit of hysteria that "Spiro Agnew was the John the Baptist for [the Reagan] revolution...
...genuine threats to Americans. So why are politicians lining up under the banner of fighting terrorism to give police more authority to invade every citizen's already much abused privacy? America has experienced this kind of legislative reaction before, and never with good results. In John Adams' day, hysteria over possible war with France produced the oppressive Alien and Sedition Acts. And in Harry Truman's day, hysteria over communism led to an ugly series of loyalty measures that launched the nation on a tortured search for demons. JOHN W. CHUCKMAN Manotick, Canada...