Word: hysteria
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...shall not soon forget that adorable sophomore kiddie who hooked up with me at the height of my typing-all-night, kvetching-all-day thesis hysteria...
Societies other than the U.S., while not exactly laughing off the sexual abuse of children, manage to acknowledge this reality without the same episodic hysteria. In England, for example, the "randy vicar" is a stock comic character. And even in America we recognize and tolerate the inevitability of certain tendencies that have occasional antisocial consequences. The military services would have a harder time filling their recruiting quotas if they were successful in screening out everyone with an unhealthy enthusiasm for violence. Instead they work to control and channel those impulses, and they largely succeed...
...just because the University president has stolen “C-minus’s” stump speech is that reason to give the vacuous hysteria over grade inflation any more credence? Lower may have one-upped “C-minus” in the competition to offend minority students and faculty, but he certainly hasn’t one-upped him in the competition to provide a reasonable explanation of why the nation’s most elite University should expend time and energy trying to worsen its students’ grades. Indeed, with grade inflation...
...idea so commercially shrewd and creatively dubious that you naturally assume it came from an American. But it was British playwright and director Terry Johnson (Dead Funny; Hysteria) who decided to take Mike Nichols' 1967 film The Graduate and put it onstage. With Kathleen Turner re-creating Anne Bancroft's role as Mrs. Robinson, the show weathered mixed reviews to become a box-office hit in London. Now it has come to Broadway, with Turner joined by a couple of young Hollywood stars, Jason Biggs and Alicia Silverstone. The show serves up the familiar story of a directionless college grad...
...authorities continue to believe the anthrax killer is a domestic terrorist who operated under cover of the Sept. 11 hysteria. The anthrax traces in Afghanistan could be environmental, according to the military. Troops have found 50 to 60 sites in the country where it seemed al-Qaeda was studying or trying to make and weaponize anthrax; the most advanced was near Kandahar. But they found no evidence of the bioterrorism agent itself. "It was more like a science-fair project than a weapons lab," a Pentagon official says...