Word: hysterias
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...court decision that perpetrators of the Deir Yassin massacre of women and children should receive government pensions is a severe blow to Israeli prestige. Morally, the action was a greater crime than the original massacre, because it came in a period of relative peace, without the pressure of war hysteria or the heat of battle. The court has condemned itself [yet] no people on earth have a longer history of regard for human rights...
...evidence confirmed that he had sex relations with Victims 5, 6 and 7. The case for the defense had been made: Christie was that rare and unhappy human monster, a necrophile. With the evidence of a psychologist who swore that Christie's crimes were the result of "gross hysteria," the defense counsel aimed for a jury verdict of "Insane...
...Washington. The desire for a scapegoat makes events of the thirties just as appalling as those of the fifties. It turns liberal into Communist, and past party members into present. It obliterates recollection of the public's own attitude toward Russia during the war years. For where there is hysteria, there can be no room for distinctions...
...there are many good, honest Republicans who, even though they realize how the present hysteria distorts the real contributions of universities, hesitate to speak up against it. Nothing that the only men, books and ideas presently being purged are those they have opposed in social politics since the New Deal, they privately thank investigator for devastating their political opponents. Unfortunately, they underestimate the awful appetite of the scapegoat desire. They might look back at the French Revolution, when purger followed purged to the guillotine, or over to Massachusetts, where the "reds-in-education" issue is the stick Democrats...
...These questions revealed a vengeful attitude toward Harvard for deciding to continue to run its own affairs, rather than be directed by ambitious politicians riding on the crest of popular hysteria they themselves created...