Word: mania
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...Strauss," said the Washington Post and Times-Herald on behalf of the gleeful critics "came to symbolize a kind of Aunty-Knows-Bestism ... a mania on secrecy and security . . . vindictiveness . . . devious methods." But the New York Daily News blew a razzberry at the critics: ALL-AMERICAN STRAUSS...
...under a flaming sky amid a hell's choir of monsters, is a painted description of "chronic hallucinatory psychosis due to menopause . . . The painting is full of obscene little monsters, and Meg seems obsessed by genital hallucinations. Two other symptoms are her careless and bizarre dress and her mania for collecting things. It is well known that old women suffering from this type of psychosis have a mania for carrying all their belongings...
...consumption at 23, and young Dumas never forgot her glamorous, terrible life. He became "The Man in Flight from Temptation," began to write plays in which seducers were condemned with such cold precision that Parisians were horrified. Complained Gustave Flaubert: "Preventing petticoats from being lifted has become a perfect mania with...
...this big, wide-ranging movie, scope is stressed at the expense of depth, and there is no time to develop any very complex characters. The most interesting of the lot is the fanatic British colonel, all of whose actions stem from one trait: conscientiousness carried to the point of mania. Alec Guinness plays him with deft stiffness. His torture scenes are appropriately ghastly, and he resists the temptation to clown. William Holden gives his usual performance as a soldier who escapes from the prison camp and returns to blow up the bridge. Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne are his fellow...
...point that Gogol had been trying to make. "Preacher of the lash," he called the muddled genius. After his first success. Gogol left Russia in a huff, spent twelve nostalgic years in self-imposed exile. He made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, slowly developed a religious mania and fell into the hands of a fanatic Russian Orthodox priest who persuaded Gogol that art was sinful. Thus an artist who all his life had been dissatisfied with his own work and had often burned manuscripts in the interests of perfection now burned his manuscripts in the interests...