Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outbreak of an epidemic* can provoke a primal panic by raising the specter of a rampant "Andromeda strain." Indeed, perhaps the most severe side effect of AIDS has been the largely unwarranted hysteria that has accompanied the syndrome (see following story). In order to allay fears that AIDS is widely contagious, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler last week visited the Warren Magnuson Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., where she shook hands with AIDS victims and sat at their bedsides. Said Heckler: "What's just as bad as the disease is the fear of the disease. The fear...
...friends, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, comes as something of a shock. The relationship between the two antic entertainers is like a half nelson after a series of handshakes. Aykroyd's attachment to his friend, dead of a drug over dose in 1982, sometimes edges close to hysteria: "Whenever Danny Aykroyd drives by [Belushi's] graveyard, he always honks his car horn - long and loud - on the good chance that somewhere, somehow, in some form, John can hear...
Even today, McCloy refuses to recognize that the American government erred in its wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. Despite Congressional findings to the contrary, McCloy denies that he and other decision-makers were guided by war hysteria and racial prejudice. We are appalled that Crimson editors, who acknowledge that wartime hysteria caused the internment, accept the continuing racism of a man who still maintains that 120,000 innocent Japanese-Americans were interned because of "military necessity...
...temporary acceptance of evil" does not mean that we must honor the architects of evil acts, particularly when they continue to defend the propriety of their actions. Whether or not the Japanese-Americans' relocation was motivated by war hysteria, and whether or not McCloy commuted the sentences of war criminals because of fear of communism, McCloy demonstrated far more concern for the entitlements of convicted war criminals than for the rights and lives of innocent Japanese-Americans and Jews...
...Attorney General Francis Biddle, and members of the Department of Justice; these men opposed internment. General DeWitt, in command of West Coast Army headquarters, joined the pressure; "military necessity" overruled objections from Washington. In my recollection, McCloy was not an actor in what quickly became West Coast mass California hysteria. David Riesman...