Word: rabidness
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...self-fulfilling hypothesis. If you scare people enough and make them believe the world is crumbling around them, at some point they'll start reacting. The news media have helped set the tone of rabid crime, and the politicians just pick up the theme and go with the flow...
Brock's central thesis is that Anita Hill misrepresented herself as a quiet woman, impelled by a sense of duty to keep an unworthy designate off the nation's highest court. She was instead, he claims, a rabid ideologue and the pawn of influential left-wing groups who felt that Clarence Thomas' conservatism rendered him unworthy of Thurgood Marshall's mantle...
...Clinton had no choice but to oscillate rightward of the political center. He was elected by a mere 43% of the voting public, hardly a mandate for sweeping change in any direction. Once he was in office, Perot and Dole attached themselves to his ankles with the tenacity of rabid terriers. Plus there's the sad fact that underdogs, numerous as they are, tend not to make big campaign contributions, certainly not compared with bankers and lawyers and CEOs...
...America a fixation on assassination conspiracies? After all, the latest furor over who really killed J.F.K., inspired by Oliver Stone's movie, has only recently abated. There remain rabid challenges to official versions of the Martin Luther King and Malcolm X murders. To sociologist Amitai Etzioni, the fascination with these questions reflects a need to explain life's inexplicable dark side: Why did all these heroes die? That tendency is encouraged by America's individualism, which encourages an instinctive distrust of authority and officialdom...
...Princeton was the hairier. The tired Harvard team went out and lost the doubles point to the Tigers, who were boosted by a rabid pro-Princeton crowd...