Word: hysterias
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...police. NGOs get shut down, while the state launches criminal probes into their leaders. The cowed media's controls grow ever harsher. And, just as 42 years ago, the Kremlin propaganda invokes the specter of an external enemy and its internal agents threatening Mother Russia. The continuing hysteria against "the desecration" of the Soviet memorial in Estonia (which in reality has been moved to a military cemetery and reopened with full military and state honors) now extends into warning signals to Poland which plans to move several hundred Communist-era memorials, including Soviet ones. Indeed, the USSR lost...
...Rather than remember and reconcile, the Putin regime doesn't miss a chance to abuse the sacred May 9 anniversary as a part of a wider campaign to fan nationalist hysteria in Russia ahead of December's parliamentary elections, and the Presidential poll scheduled for next March. Just as in Soviet times, there's nothing like the specter of an external enemy, either to make the people accept that they don't change horses in midstream and let Putin stay - or to pave the way for someone way harsher than Putin. A strong hand to keep the country together. Just...
...Terrorism,” where his views are most clearly articulated. By the end, not only does Stone give more commentary, but he also offers solutions. He advocates for protocols requiring deliberation on any wartime acts made by Congress, which would cut down on the effects of hysteria. Other protocols would set short time limits on laws that may potentially infringe on the rights of civilians. Stone also stresses the importance of judges with life tenures when it comes to protecting citizens’ civil liberties. Since they are not faced with the pressures of reelection, Stone argues, they...
Regardless of personal opinions on the issue of abortion, readers should recognize such ranting, uttered by mainstream editorial pages in nearly perfect paraphrase of one other, for what it is: hysteria...
...consequences of their pasts or the errant behavior of their soul-crushing relatives and trying to find true love and a reliable trust fund. The clothes, hair styles and decor of these films were alone worth the price of a ticket. And that says nothing about the attendant hysteria of their plots. These were stories for grown-ups, who do not go much to mainstream movies these days. The result is that these dramas wandered off into glamour-trash TV (remember Dallas?) and then into total disuse. Something like Bier's film (or the much darker Danish film, The Inheritance...