Word: mania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ancient Greeks told of a mania that masquerades as clarity, one that demands tearing a human being limb from limb and scattering his or her remains to the winds to quench some dire compulsion for cosmic order. That kind of bacchanalia, bloody and bestial, did not perish with the age of Sophocles. The remains of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper County, East Texas, are testament to its endurance...
...wrong when it sold stock in 1993. Adjusted for splits, it initially traded at over $25, but today the stock is under $2 and worth less than a plate of meat loaf with a couple of sides. Netscape's IPO in 1995 was part of Round 1 of Internet mania. Adjusted for splits, the browser company initially traded near $36, but today is around...
...seemed, was mute not by necessity but by choice. He'd tried to protect us from his thoughts, but if the times insisted that he tell what he saw as well as what he was, he could only reveal that the innocent chaos of comedy depends on a mania for control, that the cruelest of ironies attend the most heartfelt invocations of pathos. Speech is the language of hatred as silence is that of love...
...antitrust chief also had plenty of incentive to cut a deal. With merger mania rampant in industries from banking to telecommunications, Klein had ample opportunity to prove his trust-busting mettle without taking on Microsoft in a long and costly battle that many legal scholars suspect he will have a tough time winning. Faced with the uneasy prospect of trying to prove consumer harm by a company that has helped make PCs better and cheaper, Klein must have held out at least faint hopes that Gates would renounce enough of his most egregious practices to let them both declare victory...
This passage captures the ironic, skeptical attitude Lucas tries to maintain toward religious enthusiasms and mania. But he is also emotionally drawn to the subject. He starts research on a book about the Jerusalem Syndrome just as a dramatic instance of it--a plan, no less, to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount--begins to engulf people he knows and eventually him as well...