Word: hysterias
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There was a collective emotion, a sort of mass psyche, in a strange way not unlike the hysteria of less than a year before when Harvard beat Yale 29-28 in The Game...
Mass paranoia flourished in this country long before it dressed up in camouflage and stockpiled assault weapons. During the 1980s, hysteria lived in comfortable homes with jungle gyms out back and family vans parked in front. In a number of highly publicized cases-in places such as Maplewood, New Jersey; Edenton, North Carolina; Chicago; and Los Angeles-hordes of parents accused nursery-school and day-care-center workers of sexually abusing children. Spurred by public outrage, prosecutors charged staff members with horrific crimes, often based solely on the claims of youngsters whose tales ranged from gropings in the classroom...
...cost-of-living increases for federal pensioners, slash foreign aid sharply, and zero out Clinton's pet achievement, the national-service program. Even during the retreat, House members were forming "rump groups" to contest specific cuts, particularly the farm subsidies that Kasich has slated for major reductions. The hysteria will mount this week when Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici makes his plan public-a plan without the salve of tax cuts...
Oliver Stone co-produced what TIME reviewer Ginia Bellafante calls a "gripping--albeit didactic--new HBO movie" about the mass paranoia surrounding day care centers and allegations of sexual abuse in them during the 1980's. Among the victims of the hysteria were the McMartin family, who were accused of horrific crimes in their Southern California day care center. Their trial, then the longest and costliest in American history, ended in 1990 with no convictions. But screenwriters Abby and Myra Mann's nine-year obsession with the case leaves the film feverishly trying to convince any doubters of the McMartin...
...hysteria over the congregation of Black students is largely unfounded. That it is even a concern at all is primarily due to the immutable characteristic of skin color. The congregation of other student groups, like athletes, is much less noticeable. And American society has often been nervous and suspicious of large groups of Black people...