Word: hysteria
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Fueling the present hysteria, University President Lawrence H. Summers cites “habits of mind that lead to a kind of passive discrimination,” a paltry justification short on details. If Summers believes that discrimination is a real problem on Harvard’s hiring and tenure committees, then he owes everyone an explanation highlighting the specifics of his charge. But the only “habits of mind” leading to “passive discrimination” I perceive is the growing animus, encouraged by Kirby and Summers, to penalize qualified men and boost...
Particularly impressive is Karlin’s portrayal of Harper. She captures the perfect blend of maternal familiarity and suppressed hysteria that makes her so dangerous. Only a catch in her voice and grip of her hand reveals the potential of her hatred...
...with reality." DiCicco has heeded that advice. In July he called a meeting of about 30 ex--WUSA officials, sports leaders and consultants to revamp the league's business model. Gone are the five-year financial projections relied upon in the old league, which was founded on Web-like hysteria after the 1999 World Cup victory. (John Hendricks, chairman of Discovery Communications, was so "intoxicated" by the World Cup victory, he persuaded his cable brethren at Comcast, Cox and Time Warner, which owns TIME magazine, to help fund the start-up.) This time around, DiCicco says, the WUSA will rely...
...alleged author of the memos, as well as additional document experts, would say they did not look real. There would be calls for Rather's resignation. The Wall Street Journal would declare that the "liberal media establishment" had finally lost its hold on the national agenda. But behind the hysteria, this is a story about human errors whipped into a new-media news cycle. It is also a familiar tale of journalists wanting ever so badly to fit all the disparate fragments of a story into a fine, taut narrative...
...course, I did have a few brief moments of recognition: The unhappy faces of the young Wagner children dressed up as Nordic heroes make me realize that they too, at one point, thought the hysteria had gone too far. And when I enter the empty Wagner living room, loudspeakers blare the ride of the Valkyries, from the only Wagner opera I have experienced live. But in the pension, sappy German love songs make me feel that Wagner is ever distant; I did not find him in Bayreuth. I chat with the pension owner about local cuisine and head...