Word: mania
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...that sense Garrison is the descendent of a long line of Southern political feeling. Despite his sober black suits, his erudition and his conspiracy mania, he is appealing, like generations of Southern politicians before him, to Southerners's fear of being controlled by a hostile, unsympathetic, and still foreign Northern nation...
Genetic Laws. Computer specialists everywhere have developed such a mania for Life that millions of dollars in illicit computer time may have already been wasted by the game's growing number of addicts. This week Life reached maturity when a paper discussing its problems and potential was on the agenda at a major computer conference in Washington...
...grows up in Birmingham, Alabama, without drinking in the city's mania for football--intoxication is part of the heritage. It's part of mine...
...Delaney, a shrewd cop with a need to bring order to the mess of life that almost matches Blank's compulsive twitches. Sanders, who has learned a lot since his 1970 The Anderson Tapes, handles ponderous scenes gracefully enough. He balances the action as Blank's mania foams more and more frequently and as Delaney's investigation quickens. The police work and even the climbing scenes are convincing. This book will probably peg the public's estimate of alpinists a degree or so below the current view of motorcycle racers and pornographers...
...fulfillment but only for achievement-these are the subjects of The Paper Chase, a movie of some incidental pleasures and insights and a great deal of silliness. Director-Writer Bridges (The Baby Maker) uses a typically tense year at Harvard Law School as a metaphor for the reflexive mania of competition, trying to squeeze into a school term a full complement of crosscurrents in the American national character. His designs for his story (adapted from a novel by John Jay Osborn Jr.) seem rather too hefty to be sustained by such a modest narrative, however. Bridges, like his hero, gets...