Word: hysterias
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...Rougemont attended a Nazi rally in Nuremburg and recorded a stunning experience. The long-awaited arrival of Adolf Hitler threw the crowd into a frenzy. Screams of delight mounted to a ferver pitch as the man drew nearer, until the surging mass of the people gave way to utter hysteria. Rougemont felt something uncontrollable stir within him--the thrill of mass hysteria--and so powerful was the feeling that he almost succumbed. But something withing him rebelled. Ionesco relates Rougemont's story with curiosity in his notes from November 1960; "just then it was not his mind that resisted...
...Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) said immigrants are often scapegoats for politicians when the economy goes bad. California Gov. Pete Wilson, Becerra charged, has exploited the hysteria surrounding illegal immigration...
...reasons for the hysteria are uncertain. Diplomats and fearful foreign residents believe the rumors are being deliberately spread to incite violence and derail the civilian government's fast-moving peace negotiations with leftist guerrillas of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, who have fought a 33-year civil war. In recent years hundreds of human-rights observers and peace supporters -- the majority from the U.S. and Europe -- have flocked to Guatemala to work with and help protect local activists. Some conservatives and editorialists have called for these foreigners to be thrown out of the country...
...This [suit] was basically the job of a personal injury attorney and a grieving family that wanted to blame anybody but itself," Chafetz said in a phone interview yesterday. "Bean-Bayog became the victim of mass hysteria, of which I was a part...
...remained fairly tranquil. Friction between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National congress had ebbed, and rightist whites had been held in check by the government. But an ill-timed holdout against free elections by Lucas Mangope, president of the "Black homeland" Bophuthatswana, swept the whole nation into hysteria...