Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are explanations, all of them ugly. Economic greed. Racism. Wartime hysteria. Americans of German or Italian ancestry did not suffer mass incarceration, but the shock of Pearl Harbor inflamed the century-old hatred of Oriental immigrants-the "yellow peril...
...certainly true of the sensational "Scarsdale letter" of Jean Harris to Dr. Herman Tarnower. That letter, with its confluent currents of rhetorical cunning, heartbreak and hysteria, is a remarkable work of art. One cannot imagine Mrs. Harris dashing off a note that read: "Dear Hi. Miss you. Jean." Yet one can too easily see Tarnower writing back: "Dear Jean. Good to hear from you. Hi"-the absence of things in certain letters being more devastating than their presence in others. Nothing says more than a light, frisky note to a friend in despair...
...others worry that Americans may be exaggerating the effect of immigration on the U.S. - and forgetting their historically generous nature. "This country was built on immigrants," says Juan Soliz, coordinator for the Midwest Coalition in Defense of Immigration. "Some are trying to create hysteria to gain sympathizers, to have someone to blame for unemployment, inflation and high prices." Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt cautions that many questions surrounding illegal aliens remain unanswered. "For example, do they take jobs from American workers or do they perform tasks benefiting the American economy?" he asks. "No one knows. There ought to be deeper understanding...
Alexandra Phillips and Alexander Pearson, as the sexually deviant couple, work well together--his neurotic calmness offset by her frantic hysteria. As Dr. Prentice tries with the determination born of despair to hide the evidence of his misdemeanor. Mrs. Prentice rushes madly from one end of the stage to the other, always one step behind. Melissa Franklin, as the hapless Geraldine Barclay, adds an Edward Gorey-like gallows humor to the play. She plays the innocent, dumb blond with evenness, never falling into the easy trap of whining or simpering...
Criticizing the "cold-war hysteria of the Reagan Administration," the liberal priest warned that present U.S. foreign policy "may force the Russians to take retaliatory measures against the Soviet Jews." Instead, he suggested that detente continue for the "sake of the Jews," who have "historically been the most oppressed victims of persecution" in Russia...