Word: mania
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...also a mania, more appealing to many persons than psychotherapy or other relatively demanding kinds of help. Explains Boston Psychiatrist Lee Birk: "Transcendental Meditation appears to be based on art rather than science, and there is something people like about that. The white-coated laboratory researcher is just not as comforting as the Indian guru who has centuries of human wisdom behind him." Even so, the sweeping claims about TM still need to be proved definitively...
...Mania Schmemann New York City
...Soviet side has rigidly resisted verification. There are many reasons: the traditional, and today senseless, spy-mania, the tendency to bluff and the desire to gain the advantage of surprise. The West must insist, with great firmness, on a better system of verification, including on-site inspection...
...underground, whose reckless attempt to seize power had led to the island's division. They were not disappointed. "This is an ill-omened day and a mournful anniversary," said Makarios in his nasal twang. "When on the morning of that day the putschists struck and in their paranoiac mania brought down the presidential palace, they at the same time opened the gates and let in Turkey, which had awaited the opportunity...
...worth checking out. The Hitler and Stalin ones are missing, but the great Bogart-Bacall spoofs are here. (I remember seeing the shadow-faced smoking tough guy on a Saturday morning long ago, and feeling what an intense character it was without knowing this was Bogie: any Bogart mania now owes a lot to that early Resh, I think. And it's a trip to see the original I-taut-I-saw-a-puddy-tat, I did, I did. Every theme, whether Elmer Fudd chasing down Bugs or Sylvester on the prowl, is hunted outwitting the hunter, of course, whatever...