Word: mania
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Insatiable Headmaster. England's egg-throwing mania began in February at Carr Mill Junior School in Lancashire after Headmaster Douglas Appleton proved to his students that they could not break eggs by pressing them between their hands. Soon the children were throwing eggs from the school's second-floor windows. Eggs that hit the concrete were smashed, but those that fell on the lawn were undamaged. Says Appleton: "The excitement and wonderment were intense...
...psychiatrist, lithium is a fascinating substance, the lightest of all the solid elements. Its compounds have had a discouraging history in medicine. Last week, however, lithium carbonate was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of mental patients in the overexcited mania phase of manic-depressive psychosis...
Danish investigators extended Cade's findings: lithium-treated patients, after remission of their mania, did not become depressed as soon again or as often as those receiving other drugs. But lithium carbonate posed a problem for the drug industry. A common chemical, it could not be patented, so there could be little profit in its manufacture. Any schoolboy could buy it from a chemical supply house for his basement laboratory; the FDA insisted that only research psychiatrists could use it clinically, under rigid rules...
...Instant age," sniffed a Boston fashion writer. "If God wanted women to go around all covered up that way," says Atlanta TV Reporter Tom Loughney, "they'd be born like that." Still, such protests rarely reach farther than across a bar or a park bench. What the midi mania clearly calls for is mass resistance...
...BEATLES did a great deal for sitar music, but they knew nothing about it," Mirza told me last week. "They exploited it for the pop mania. There has been a great sinking of Indian music in the United States during the last year because of its commercialization and exploitation. Trying to cater to all tastes like a very bad cook has been responsible for its demise from interest...