Word: hysterias
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...prosecuted for financial practices that are common among some larger, established churches; moreover, says Tribe, the prosecution is an unwarranted intrusion by the Government and a jury into church affairs. "It is exactly the people who are hated who ought to have the protection of the courts against mass hysteria," he says. "The issue in this case is not religion alone but rather how to protect minorities against oppression...
...Nazi-fascist barbarians, blackmailers by nature, cowardly, opportunistic and calculating like their Hitlerian predecessors." The Reagan Administration, he charged, is pushing the world toward nuclear holocaust. Citing in particular the deployment of new U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, Castro declared that President Reagan's "warlike hysteria" would produce a "necessary and just response" from Cuba's main ally, the Soviet Union...
Instances of herpes hysteria have become increasingly common as the disease affects growing numbers of the newborn. Campaigns to isolate these infected children are, however, misguided. According to pediatricians, the children pose no greater threat to their classmates than someone with a common cold sore. Moreover, the chances for transmission are slight since intimate contact with the infected area is required. "Kids are just as liable to become infected when kissed by their grandmother or aunt," says Lawrence Corey of Children's Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle...
...smoke and dust that would block out the sun's light, producing a "nuclear winter" of death from freezing and starvation. Some 100 million Americans watched The Day After, a frightful TV visualization of nuclear blast, fire and radiation.* In Western Europe, demonstrations against the missiles made up in hysteria for anything they might have lacked in numbers. Hundreds of thousands of peace marchers paraded in West Germany, some wearing mourning clothes or displaying faces painted white to resemble death masks. Hundreds of women chained themselves to the fence at Greenham Common airbase in Britain to protest the unloading...
...Soviet relationship is today quite normal, and this is all to the good. Unlike the past, when American public opinion tended to swing from euphoria about détente to hysteria about the cold war, the public correctly perceives Soviet-American relations as basically antagonistic and competitive, though linked by a common interest in survival...