Word: mania
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fatigable fiddlers with figures, and from "Man's Prime" [TIME, Sept. 10] I note that Psychologist Harvey C. Lehman has averaged it all up to conclude that "top performances" come "at a precise figure for the prime of life: 33." An interesting commentary on the psychologist's mania for meaningless statistics would be a brief listing of some outstanding "top performances" in the arts, i.e., actual masterpieces...
...book by Olsen & Johnson and Eugene Conrad; music & lyrics by Burton Lane; produced by the Messrs. Shubert and Olsen & Johnson), considering that its father was Sons o' Fun and its grandfather Hellzapoppin, is a little on the rational side. It has the family tic-love of firearms and mania for practical jokes; it casually flips a sausage in your lap, starts an uproar in the aisles, and sports a big, live brown bear. But either Laffing Room Only lacks the old lunacy, or the old lunacy lacks the lure it once...
What I do advocate is that Americans should learn enough of German history and politics to realize the truth: that Hitler and the Nazis are merely the latest and most hysterical expression of the century-old master race obsession of the German people and their resulting mania for world conquest...
...real Ripper (who was never caught) cut the throats of and expertly mutilated six prostitutes. As fictionized in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes's famed thriller, The Lodger, he was less shocking, was motivated by religious mania. The screen Ripper, derived from Mrs. Lowndes's novel, is even less shocking. In part this is due to the fact that the audience knows from the start that Laird Cregar is the Ripper, so that the suspense is purely academic. In part it is due to the incredible elegance of the production and photography, which makes the whole film more memorable...
...Harry Ruby's real passion in life is neither song nor script writing-it is baseball. Ever since a day, 22 years ago, when Ruby stopped in New Rochelle to watch a Westchester League sandlot game, baseball has obsessed him to the point of mania. With doglike devotion, he has followed the White Sox, the Giants, the Cubs, and a half-dozen other U.S. Major League teams in training and on the road. Ruby owns and wears the uniforms of all the teams he fools with. He spends most of his time bench-warming...