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...Lion King Disney's justly celebrated stage version of the hit movie has given Broadway an electric shock of excitement. Julie Taymor's design wizardry accomplished the difficult task of satisfying everyone: adults as well as kids, tourists looking for a reason to come to New York City, and serious theatergoers looking for a reason to believe in Broadway again. It may not be the Second Coming, but there's nothing else like it on God's earth. Don't be surprised if it runs forever...
...There were witch-hunts in the 1690s, episodes of hysteria in the 1890s. In our own time, one has only to reach back a couple of years to recall large-scale group fears induced by mention of the ozone layer, or by pandemics like toxic-shock syndrome, the Gulf War syndrome and the Ebola virus...
...some extent, the unrelenting sensationalism of the news, and of life as it has been portrayed on the daytime talk shows, added to the resistance to emotional responses. This was because, first, few things shock anybody anymore, and second, because people feel assured that all the freakishness of life will be normalized and neutralized on television. The too frequent child murders of the year, such as the killings in New Jersey (one by another child), the killings and shootings of and by schoolchildren in Mississippi and Kentucky, and the stories of newborns left in toilets or in Dumpsters ought...
...death last week of a 16-year-old Dorchester High School student has left a group of Harvard friends--the volunteers of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Franklin Summer Program --stricken with grief and shock...
...laughed--an insane laugh--out of shock. I kept thinking that this just couldn't be true," she adds...