Word: mania
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...possibilities to be foreseen and dealt with. Nixon, when crossed, is a very dangerous man. He can be defeated at the polls if liberals stick together and remain calm. Fortunately it appears that the Democrats will have the kind of men who can effectively counter the Nixon Mania...
...indignation at various times for law-and-order, fascism, racism, and even war-weariness. A year later the public irascibility became mixed up with ecology. Americans simply wanted a government that could govern, one which could execute clearly conceived programs with a maximum of legal decorum. The same national mania which put the Republicans in power could have, with equal despair, made Robert Kennedy President...
...fail to see that we are the victims, defendants, of genocidal war, you will not understand the rage of the blacks, the fierceness of the browns, the holy fanaticism of the Palestinians, the righteous mania of the Weathermen, and the persuasive resentment of the young...
...extraordinary pianist, and though he could not play a single orchestral instrument, he knew exactly what each could do, often proving he knew more about it than the players themselves. His beat was sharply defined and unfailing as an atomic clock. He was a scholar with a mania for research and a memory that neatly stored away the data in mental cubbyholes for instant retrieval. Though he cared deeply for paintings and literature and was a gourmet, music was his passion. Everything and everybody, including himself, was to be sacrificed to its perfection. He was fearsome, unforgiving...
...lighter side of literary scholarship gives A Certain World only a small part of its total impact. Auden has involved himself in a great variety of intellectual pursuits, from his boyhood mania for lead mining to his mature infatuation with opera. They are all charted on this mental map, though music is slighted because, as the poet points out, "nothing can be said about music, except when...