Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order calling for the commitment of about 120,000 Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast to "relocation centers." At the time, the government cited military necessity for this action; a commission appointed by Congress to look into the matter two months ago concluded that prejudice and war-time hysteria were responsible for this dark chapter in American history...
...students first confuse the rational practice of condemning certain war-time policies with the extreme one of blacklisting those who them. It is historical biologist that has created the that the was wrong, that should have that the Nazi sentence should not have been command, but at the time hysteria in wartime and fear of afterwards led to a general agreement in the opposite...
...mass phenomenon." A Palestinian health official agreed, concluding that while the first 20% of the cases were probably caused by the inhalation of some kind of gas, the remaining 80% were basically psychosomatic. As Director-General Modan put it, "We don't want to call it hysteria for fear we will create hysteria." A more fundamental problem is that even if the epidemic really was a case of mass hysteria, few Palestinian Arabs in the emotion-charged West Bank were likely to believe...
According to Ford, somatizing disorders take many forms, including hysteria, malingering, chronic pain and hypochondriasis. The hypochondriac is preoccupied with the fear of having a serious disease. Some doctors refer to the treatment of hypochondriacs, or "crocks," as "psychoceramic medicine" and the recitation of their histories as "organ recitals." Other somatizers sometimes deliberately fake illness, going so far, for example, as to rub a thermometer on a bedsheet to produce a fever, lacerate the skin to create lesions, or overuse laxatives to disrupt the gastrointestinal tract. In the bizarre Munchausen syndrome, which, according to one estimate, affects...
...Rachel shuttles between Washington and Manhattan, she oscillates between hysteria and impartial reportage. But if she is contradictory as a character, she is consistent as an alter ego. Nora Ephron once imagined herself as a "wallflower at the orgy, . .. everyone else is having a marvelous time, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all." It was a premonitory passage. Here she is in 1983, everybody sleeping around like characters in a Restoration play, while she records the events with misery and wit. At times her comedy seems borrowed...