Word: hysterias
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Cancer research--today's media hysteria over newer technologies notwithstanding--has always made strides in a slow and deliberate manner. Oncologists worldwide attend yearly meetings to listen to, digest, scrutinize, modify and summarize a universe of scientific and clinical data. No two oncologists walk away from these meetings with exactly the same opinion. Clinical trials that last only several years must further mature before long-lasting conclusions are crystallized. I'm not against enthusiasm, but science always advances without cheerleaders and circus ringmasters. Our patients deserve better. ANTHONY F. PROVENZANO, M.D. Clinical Assistant Professor New York Medical College New York...
...airwaves were full with the sweet songs of such crooners as Frankie Laine and Mel Torme. Although teenage girl's new-found hysteria was directed to the "new" Frankie's tender tunes, their yearning for the "old" Frank Sinatra turns to nostalgia. "Poor Frankie," a Chicago girl tells Life magazine. "He's old now and has three kids...
This is what you might think, anyway, given all the hysteria surrounding Seinfeld's last episode--the planned mass viewings, the daily "Sein Off" headlines. It's as if none of us will be able to survive past Thursday. Somehow we will have to carry on, though, and to do so it may help to scrutinize exactly what it is we will be losing when Seinfeld goes off the air and whether all this fuss is justified. One way to approach these questions is to look at the show in the historical context of America's signature contribution to Western...
...election, 1.5% of the electorate voted for him. That's about 1.5 million people. I think about those people, I wonder who they are. But I'll never know. The press hysteria before the election was extraordinary. Ordinary people no longer trusted or respected the moribund Yeltsin, but many were afraid of the communists and Gennadi Zyuganov, so the campaign was carried out under the slogan THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS or BETTER DEAD THAN RED. All my friends either voted for Yeltsin, sighing and chanting the sacred phrases, or, overcome by apathy or revulsion, didn't vote...
...chaotic home of Abby's aunt, uncle and cousins, where the majority of the inhabitants are under the age of four. In the land of the little people the three-and-a-half-year-old twin cousins reign, and references to "pee-pee juice" and "stinky head" generate ongoing hysteria. We quickly adapted to most aspects of our temporary home: Cheerios, cheese sandwiches and jokes about excretory functions served us well. We watched Bambi, played hide-and-go-seek in the dark hallways of the aquarium and got to be veloceraptors in prehistoric playground battles. But ultimately, daily rituals like...