Word: hysterias
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...Royal Navy as a cadet at Osborne, a rigorous officer-training academy on the Isle of Wight. He was soon seared by an event that is thought to have directed the course of his life: as World War I broke out his father was hounded by anti-German hysteria and forced to resign as First Sea Lord. The tears that ran down the cadet's face, according to a biographer, instilled a burning ambition to rise in the military establishment and avenge Prince Louis' humiliation...
FROM THE PEOPLE who brought you Lamont Library comes this addled admixture of hysteria and laborious detail called Campus Shock, which leaves you with what Daniel Webster called that "miserable interrogatory". "What is all this worth?" Well, not a whole lot. Lansing Lamont '52 has written a book which will be noteworthy, if at all, only in the quickness of its declension to the remainder heap over at Barnes & Noble, or its ability to heat a small room at Fahrenheit...
Less than 24 hours and I had overdosed. Less than a day and I was already experiencing displacement, shock, and near hysteria. To hell with all these pretentious status-seekers, purveyors of polite dinner conversation, academic bon vivants who transformed Beethoven and Marx into props for a daily song and dance...
...ridiculous." Comments Sulloway: "Actually the book was widely and favorably reviewed in popular and scientific periodicals and it was recognized by a good number of its reviewers as 'epochmaking' and 'profound.'" Freud portrayed the cool reaction to an 1886 speech he gave on male hysteria as pigheadedness by an entrenched medical Establishment. In Sulloway's view, the doctors were unimpressed because Freud's message was old-hat-the bumptious young Freud had presumed to lecture his elders on matters they already well knew...
...Jamaican nationalists, however, believe the Rastas are lazy, drugged-out, and beguiled by illusions verging on mass hysteria. In fact, one Jamaican psychologist addressed an international psychology conference about the problem of the culture they find so bizarre. The Rastas are a national disgrace in the eyes of middle-class Jamaicans. They believe the Rastas are threatening their dream of a unified Jamaica. The Rastas, on the other hand, refuse to participate in politics. They believe that the Jamaican elites must repay them for 400 years of slavery, and send them back to Ethiopia. Harvard's Orlando Patterson, professor...