Word: hysteria
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...this whiny near-hysteria of Macbeth's conscious effort on somebody's part, then? Have we been handed somebody's idea of a deliberate re-reading of the character--a postmodern comedy, perhaps, along the lines of a Tom Stoppard play? If this is the idea, it doesn't seem to be working. The rest of the production interprets the text at face value; as a result, the bizarre behavior of Colapinto's Macbeth gradually renders its audience unsure whether any given line or scene is meant to be interpreted as straight drama or as comedy. The audience starts...
...mood of triumphant brightness in Symphony Hall quickly changed at the start of Anton Bruckner's brooding Ninth Symphony, which comprised the second half of the concert. An ominous and disturbing work, it swings violently from melancholy introspection to frenzied passages which verge on hysteria. Bruckner started writing this Symphony during what was probably the lowest ebb of his confidence in his own work. The publisher who had promoted and loved his tremendously successful Seventh Symphony had recently told Bruckner that his Eighth Symphony was incomprehensible. After this criticism, Bruckner spent most of his time trying to revise his older...
Fertik said that he feels some "hysteria to be launching such a big thing and to be taking over at mid term...
...done is deeply troubling. For some, it brings into question the very basis of democratic governance. Democracy, after all, assumes a people capable of independence of mind, of some intellectual and emotional resistance. One doubts the very existence of that capacity after witnessing a media-fed mass hysteria...
Then again it is doubtless partly mass hysteria--groupies genuinely mean it too, when they swoon in the presence of their idols, one scream leading to another, one pair of panties thrown onstage soon leading to a storm of votive lingerie. It is partly resentment against the in-laws. Despite late damage limitation from the palace, many Britons see the British royal family as villains in this soap opera, stuffy and reactionary guardians of an old order into which Diana came as a lovely catalyst, only to be spurned as young heroines so often...