Word: hysteria
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...they'll get the rest. "I want to be free!" shouts Raul. "I want to go to a hotel for a vacation. I want to take a car and drive into the countryside. We are Negroes in our own country; we are slaves." His voice rises close to hysteria as waiters in the ; restaurant pretend not to hear. "I won't stay here! I hate this country...
...current debate over the legitimacy of testimony based on an individual's thoughts, hysteria does not grip the courts. Defendants are not convicted without corroborating evidence; countersuits against accusers and their therapists are being successfully pursued. In some cases, the courts may be favoring the defendants; many states have not altered their statutes of limitations to allow victims to bring charges for crimes that occurred many years...
...cult hysteria notwithstanding, you will find that the majority of members of the Unification Church are married, have children, live in their own homes and are productive members of society. Most members of the Church are college educated and are involved in traditional professions as doctors, lawyers, publishers and businessmen, to name a few. Indeed, many members of the Church even attend or have attended--and excelled at--Harvard...
Where were the Democrats on this one? They forced a nuclear-freeze resolution through the House of Representatives, 278 to 149. Their central idea -- if one can speak of a hysteria in terms of ideas -- was that Reagan was blinded by his cold war anti-Sovietism. The real enemy, they insisted, was not communism but the nuclear weapons themselves...
Many Harvard students are studying to be the doctors and scientists of tomorrow. Certainly, they should be concerned with the issues of modern science and with the impact their future work might have. Why has there been no outcry, no wave of hysteria about the prospect of this brave new world...