Word: hysterias
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After the Bonnie and Clyde hysteria died down, Beatty acted only occasionally. His single memorable performance was in Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971); it was also his first appearance opposite Julie Christie, who had been the most important woman in his life since...
...their minds, indeed from the responsibility of collaborating in the democratic process. It means the elevation (or lowering) of the presidency to a kind of magical dictatorship, where everything is the President's responsibility. This is often accompanied by a terrible kind of impatience, almost a sort of hysteria, where every problem, every mistake, or seeming mistake, becomes part of a self-reinforcing pattern of disaster. When Carter puts huge, long-range problems on the agenda- shrinking Big Government, civil service reform-we say that he overpromises (which he has done in some cases), or that he is unrealistic...
...vindictive. If he does not forgive his enemies all their transgressions, he does not try to punish them either-a forbearance very few Presidents have shown. While others may have lost confidence in him, he appears to remain serenely confident in himself. He betrays no signs of anxiety or hysteria. He is a man of good will and moral purpose...
...several of them had vomited and passed out after smoking pot. G.D. Searle Laboratories in Skokie, Ill., reported that 39 out of 40 marijuana samples tested had traces of paraquat. "People are running scared," says Dr. Vernon Patch, a Boston drug-abuse expert. "A situation exists which borders on hysteria," agrees the deputy director of the Illinois dangerous-drugs commission, Daniel Behnke...
...this time period may not have been random, although it is an ultimately undeveloped idea. Specific trends in the Vienna of that time have relevance to the themes of the play. In late 19th century Vienna, many bourgeois marriages had become business contracts of respectability, driving wives to hysteria on Freud's couch and husbands to other reclining positions. One Viennese citizen says prostitution was "the dark underground vault over which rose the gorgeous structure of middle class society with its faultless radiant facade." Similarly in the story of Measure for Measure lechery runs rampant in Vienna. The Duke...