Word: mania
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Cause of Fascist Mania...
...could speak with feeling of the dry martini. "I suppose nothing can be done with people who put olives in martinis. Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best." He could also speak with feeling about the national mania for compiling subversive lists: "Nomination to them is the diagnostic test of decency for anyone who has a public forum...
...problem is paranoia: persecution mania. Because Roman Catholicism has made problems for us somewhere, we begin to see its threat everywhere. We feel chronically picked on, beaten down, abused . . . The fine Italian hand (which is usually here a fairly clumsy Irish one) is seen in everything...
...symbol of comfort and repose in every habitant farmhouse, was transformed into a device of frenzy and fatigue in Quebec last week. A wave of rocking-chair contests called bercethons (from the French bercer-to rock) swept the province. Quebec was suffering a virulent recurrence of the marathon mania of the '305, with rockerthons, pianothbns, poolothons and countless other forms of zany endurance tests under way in almost every village and town...
...when the mania exhausted his patience, Quebec's Premier Alexandre Taschereau ordered provincial police to raid the halls where marathons were being held. So far there has been no hint of another crackdown. A few Catholic priests have preached about irreligious berceurs who stick to their rockers and miss Sunday Mass. But Premier Maurice Duplessis, who was at home last week coddling a cold, was reportedly planning no action. "What could Mr. Duplessis say?" asked Solicitor General Antoine Rivard. "He's rocking himself at the moment...