Word: hysterias
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After a week of teas and tours, bashes and branches the freshman class next week enters the home stretch of the House lottery process, a ritual which has meant hysteria for some, but only mild anxiety for others...
...what they saw enacted last week on TV. That was not history, not journalism, but crusading entertainment, with the facts carefully organized to sustain a neat story line and to suit a political point of view: Writer-Producer Abby Mann believes that Williams was railroaded. Responding to local hysteria and national scrutiny, Atlanta officials were, Mann contends, so desperate to close the books on as many as 29 allegedly connected murders that they would have blamed absolutely anyone. Mann's position lacks internal logic: while on the one hand accusing the city of a rush to judgment, his film...
Referral to the Toronto center comes from community groups and immigration lawyers. But many survivors still enter countries as normal aliens. One Afghan woman, admitted to a Montreal hospital last year and treated for kidney infection and hysteria, was not identified as a torture victim for months. There are problems of language and culture, says Cowgill, and few doctors recognize the signs of torture. Many patients also are tight-lipped about their ordeals...
...respire is only temporary. Suddenly, the fast-paced music takes over-and the figure writhe into a fascinating hysteria. The clumps of dancers demand total attention as they separate and then rejoin--all White kicking their legs and making their hands vibrate in the air. Just as chaos seems to hover in a split-second the music stops...
...acceptance? Why is enduring taken as a proof of strength? Was civilization not meant to serve? Have none of these people ever taken the trains in London, Paris--even Chicago? Don't they know it does not have to be this way? The newcomer, on a rising note of hysteria, begins to speak of the indignity and passivity that haunt the 20th century. More in sorrow than in anger, the real, regular commuters shake their heads and insist: "You don't understand...