Word: mania
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...George Kennan's observation that "the theory of the inevitability of the eventual fall of capitalism has the fortunate connotation that there is no hurry about it." Fulbright compared the Communists to Hitler's Nazi Germany, observing that "neither Stalin nor his successors have exhibited anything like the suicidal mania of Hitler's Germany...
Boulez deplored the use of scientific language in music by those not thoroughly trained in both science and music. For example, numerical description of the permutations of notes in serial music is "sophism and mania, related more to despair than to science"; such an approach raises the spectre of the medieval fanatics of the Golden Number...
Throughout the city, a quiet mania was perceptible. People were smiling. Even people with sophomore essays, theses, and Sanskrit 103 exams impending. People lay motionless on the banks of the Charles, feigning study. People lay motionless in the Yard, feigning study. At Radcliffe, most of the girls were studying, of course, but usually reliable sources told the CRIMSON that several 'Cliffies were seen sitting under trees in the quad, wearing shorts, and feigning study. Elsewhere, people were going for long walks, eating ice cream cones (with jimmies), and playing baseball...
...unhappily, the baron stops looking at himself just long enough to notice his luscious young cousin (Stefania Sandrelli). His mustache bristles. From that moment he is a man with a mono mania: off with the old wife (Daniella Rocca), on with the new. Furtively he riffles through a lawbook, evilly he smiles at what he finds, cunningly he recruits a lover for his wife. It isn't easy. For one thing, she has a mustache almost as fluffy as his own. For another, she is pugnaciously, insultingly faithful...
...mania for mass instruction is resisted only in the laboratory sciences, the medical schools, and in mathematics and languages (both of which Eble includes under "humanities"). "In English, no way has yet been discovered to lecture literacy into existence...