Word: mania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More generally, the mania students exhibit when the football team beats Yale, when the hockey team beats Cornell, when the crew team beats whoever is this year's runner-up, are outpourings of emotion which create an image of the frivolous Harvard undergraduate, an image which is sure to seep over and stain the administration's reactions to non-frivolous undergraduate projects...
...more children with better education sooner. Comments Roberta Babb, director of Creme de la Creme: "For a long time, people didn't realize all the things that a little mind is capable of. We give them a big head start for school." But others are dismayed by a parental mania to overstuff little minds that are not ready. At the recent convention in Atlanta of the National Association of Independent Schools, hothousing was a major topic among the 4,000 in attendance. Argued one of the panelists, Cleveland-based Educational Psychologist Jane Healy: "We're viewing children as a perfectible...
...billion in IRA deposits for 1985, an increase of 14% over last year. Most consumers waited until the last few weeks before the tax deadline, even though they could legally have made last year's contributions anytime after Jan. 1, 1985. "This is the absolute peak of IRA mania right now," declares Brian Smith, senior vice president of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions...
...essence of the hockey mania wasn't lost on Bok, a devoted basketball fan who admittedly didn't "understand the fine points of hockey," but nonetheless cheered on his pucksters from a seat in section 212. "I do know that when the red light goes on in front of [Michigan St.'s] goal, I yell," the distinguished spectator confessed...
Meanwhile, a new craze seems to have afflicted several members of the team: dunking mania. After a long dunk drought, forwards Neil Phillips and Kyle Dodson each 'threw one down' during last Saturday's romp over Brandeis...