Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophistication of the overall system made the Americans realize they had underrated the Soviets; they weren't even sure how the various electronic parts they had found worked together. The Bracy confession landed in this explosive environment like a lighted match in a munitions dump. "There was a hysteria about it," says a recently retired official. "There had been a series of underestimations of what the Soviets could do. So when someone comes in and dramatically overestimates, anyone who criticizes that is put in the same category as those who underestimated it in the past...
Titles like this aside, most of the books written about U.S.-Japanese economic competition avoided hysteria. Their authors duly noted that the United States was still the world's largest industrial power and was certain to remain relatively wealthy for quite some time. All these works suggested was that by studying Japan's unique economic system, we could adopt those structures that worked so well there...
Joslin started the hysteria less than two minutes into the game, and McAnaney, French and Julie Clifford laughed all the way to the goal...
Duberman, a professor of history at Lehman College in New York City, is a scrupulous biographer. But he seems an ingenuous historian. In his view, Robeson became the target of "Cold War hysteria," and the sad outcome of a brilliant career was, in essence, "America's tragedy." But in fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between...
...Personally, this is fine by me, but it is startling how the Surgeon General's admonitions have become effective only with the coming of the new purity. It is also curious how the 80's have been a time of rising drinking ages and new heights in anti-drug hysteria (only cocaine, with its connotations of physical "acceleration" and personal wealth, has any style left...