hysterias

If, amid anti-communist hysterias and social upheaval decades ago, the U.S. government employed armies of informers and other forms of often illegal surveillance, government and law enforcement agencies today are actually casting a far broader surveillance net in the name of security in a relentless effort to watch and hear everything -- and to far less attention or concern than in the 1960s.

Stephan Salisbury: Surveillance, America's Pastime Stephan Salisbury 2010

If, amid anti-communist hysterias and social upheaval decades ago, the U.S. government employed armies of informers and other forms of often illegal surveillance, government and law enforcement agencies today are actually casting a far broader surveillance net in the name of security in a relentless effort to watch and hear everything -- and to far less attention or concern than in the 1960s.

Stephan Salisbury: Surveillance, America's Pastime Stephan Salisbury 2010

Yup, some of those old-timers had been through a few flag-waving hysterias of the past, and knew what could come next.

Matthew Yglesias » The Bush Record 2009

If, amid anti-communist hysterias and social upheaval decades ago, the U.S. government employed armies of informers and other forms of often illegal surveillance, government and law enforcement agencies today are actually casting a far broader surveillance net in the name of security in a relentless effort to watch and hear everything -- and to far less attention or concern than in the 1960s.

Stephan Salisbury: Surveillance, America's Pastime Stephan Salisbury 2010

Virchow entered medicine in the early 1840s, when nearly every disease was attributed to the workings of some invisible force: miasmas, neuroses, bad humors, and hysterias.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Virchow entered medicine in the early 1840s, when nearly every disease was attributed to the workings of some invisible force: miasmas, neuroses, bad humors, and hysterias.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Fads, crazes, hysterias, and other contagious social phenomena have long been a mysterious and occasionally hilarious part of human history.

The Science of Buzz 2010

Although he once had seen external events—specifically, childhood sexual abuse—as the culprit in the hysterias he was treating, he had come to think of the memories of abuse as fantasies spun out by the psyche as it manufactured a Manichaean reality in an attempt to come to terms with its own divided nature.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

Fads, crazes, hysterias, and other contagious social phenomena have long been a mysterious and occasionally hilarious part of human history.

Nathan Bransford: The Science of Buzz 2010

Yes, hindsight is 20/20, but at the beginning of both the SARS and avian flu outbreaks, not just that regarding swine flu, I proclaimed them hysterias.

No More Crying 'Spanish Flu' 2010