Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smoke and dust that would block out the sun's light, producing a "nuclear winter" of death from freezing and starvation. Some 100 million Americans watched The Day After, a frightful TV visualization of nuclear blast, fire and radiation.* In Western Europe, demonstrations against the missiles made up in hysteria for anything they might have lacked in numbers. Hundreds of thousands of peace marchers paraded in West Germany, some wearing mourning clothes or displaying faces painted white to resemble death masks. Hundreds of women chained themselves to the fence at Greenham Common airbase in Britain to protest the unloading...
...life, one out of eleven American women will be told she has breast cancer. The dread of this moment is perhaps the single biggest fear that women have about their health. For Nina Miller, 42, of Santa Cruz, Calif., it happened two years ago. Her reaction was typical: "Total hysteria. My only thought was, they're going to mutilate my body, and then I'm going to die." But Miller has lost neither her life nor her breast. Like a small but growing number of breast-cancer patients in the U.S., she avoided a mastectomy and instead...
...survey cites the anonymous comments of tenured male faculty members, such as, "Much of the harassment bit is due to the feminist hysteria." Such comments underscore the need for concerted University action and education. If Dean Rosovsky was not surprised, he, like many others in this community, should be outraged...
...unusual between the sexes, and are not, in and of themselves, a bad thing. However, when one turns to the comments included in the survey report, a more troubling picture emerges. It's not simply that a tenured male faculty member attributes attention to sexual harassment to "feminist hysteria." Nor does it stop at defensive remarks that sexual harassment complaints are "fabricated", or comments decrying "reverse sexual harassment"--overtures from students...
...number of press accounts, especially a Boston Globe piece on the unscrupulous KAL organization--have pointed out, the issue can be colored in many shades. However, the conclusions reached by some in the media have proven to be even more groundless than the initial hysteria that provoked them...