Word: hysterias
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...resulting drama. Caroline dressed up as Poet Byron's page boy in a silver-laced jacket and scarlet pantaloons, bit large pieces out of her wine glass when she saw him talking to another woman. But Melbourne stood staunchly by his Fairy Queen, watching her glittering hysteria degenerate into madness. She died in 1828, leaving him the father of a half-witted...
...nothing else in modern U.S. history, in laying U.S. national behavior open to the most ludicrous caricature. Into the deadly struggle to turn back Communist aggression, to outsmart and outfight Communist parties threatening France and Italy, there suddenly seems to be injected a moment of farce, of hysteria edging on madness, when the news tickers of the world click out the report that Senator McCarthy is hot on the trail of a suspect typist trapped in the Pentagon labyrinth...
From earliest times, woman's womb and its workings have been grossly misunderstood. For centuries, the uterus was supposed to have an independent life and motility of its own. It was believed to be the cause of hysteria, which was derived from the Greek word for womb (varepo.). Even today, a "host of taboos, legends and mysteries" persist. So say two Salt Lake City psychiatrists in the current issue of GP (published by the American Academy of General Practice). According to Drs. C. H. Hardin Branch and David E. Reiser, "otherwise sophisticated and intelligent" women are extremely naive...
...weather"), but death is so close and horrifying that she cries: "I am too afraid to be sorry ... I want to be brave but I cannot." Feeling like an animal because she is always watched, Mary knows only two inescapable realities: prison and fear. Gradually her fear mounts to hysteria. She loses all control, screams in her sleep, abandons even vanity. Using lipstick would be indecent now, she thinks, "like painting the face of a corpse." In the end Mary cannot even think any more, and her execution, even to her executioners, seems meaningless and barbaric...
...some of his critics-the breed described by Old Socialist Norman Thomas as the liberals "who may be reluctantly persuaded that Alger Hiss is guilty, but never can forgive Whittaker Chambers." Rorty and Decter completely reject the hysterical view that the U.S. is in the grip of McCarthy-inspired hysteria, or that the man from Wisconsin is the American Hitler...