Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Reagan emerged from conferences with his lieutenants to attend a series of private dinners, he merely smiled away correspondents' questions. In Washington rumors and speculation buzzed louder every day, reproducing a touch of the he's-down, he's-up, he's-down-again hysteria of '30s fight broadcasters in Reagan's radio-announcing days...
...rights leader, said that many Blacks believe that the recent murders of Black children in Atlanta, the rash of incidents on college campuses, and the Greensboro acquittals are part of a "nationwide conspiracy" against blacks. This sentiment, Jackson says, coupled with the election of Ronald Reagan, has resulted in "hysteria" in some Black communities...
...Black Sea, XTC. XTC's high-tech idolatry, exhibited on last year's Drums and Wires in songs like "Roads Girdle the Globe," metamorphosed in 1980 into full-scale battle hysteria; Black Sea is the best of the new war music. "Generals and Majors" overlays "Bridge Over the River Kwai"-style corps whistling on a bouncy anthem...
...advice and information they need to run a household-a kind of Family Circle of the air. Helen Gurley Brown addressed the problems of working women; Rona Barrett dished up as much of the Hollywood dirt as ABC'S lawyers would let her get away with; and mixing hysteria with sensationalism in equal measure, Geraldo Rivera provided a kind of television version of the National Enquirer. Holding it all together was amiable David Hartman. Says ABC Vice President Squire Rushnell: "David Hartman is the most important single factor in the success of Good Morning America...
...billowing smoke. Cold and soaked with sea spray, some passengers kept up their spirits by singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat and Show Me the Way to Go Home. Recalled John Courtney, 69, a retired college art professor: "A lot of people were seasick, but there was no hysteria." By 9:30 a.m., helicopters began hoisting people from the lifeboats in baskets and ferrying them to the rescue vessels. Only a handful of passengers suffered any ill effects from the cold. Said Master Sergeant E.L. Nardi, an Air Force medic: "Eight hours later, we would have lost half of them...