Word: mania
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...talk as the same old bribery they have heard from Big Time recruiters, albeit done up in a dignified package. Some Harvard alumni may even have made empty, irresponsible promises, but Dean Bender feels that any "disillusioned" football players here today are more likely victims of the current national mania that seems to say a college owes the athlete something special...
...talk, as the same old bribery they have heard from Big Time recruitors, albeit done up in a dignified package. Some Harvard alumni may even have made empty, irresponsible promises, but Dean Bender feels that any "disillusioned" football players here today are more likely victims of the current national mania that seem to say a college owes the athelete something special...
...that the Czar was not far wrong about the Russians, at that. "Other nations have tolerated oppression; the Russian nation has loved it; she still loves it . . . An oppressed people has always merited its suffering; tyranny is the work of nations . . . However, it cannot be denied that this popular mania has become the principle of sublime actions. In this inhumane country, if society has denatured man it has not shrunk him . . . He is not good but he is not paltry...
...Some editors have a mania for trying to improve a man's copy, thus making the writer say what he didn't quite mean in a way he didn't intend." There is something even harder to take. "Just when . . . the correspondent has done all the preliminary work and is all set to cover [a] conference that the great world will be watching, he is handed a wire: 'Our Washington correspondent, Bill Blah, is arriving with the American delegation and will be in charge.Please give him every assistance...
...Dinelli; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) is young and very dangerous-a paranoiac with a persecution mania who comes to do a day's cleaning for a kindly, middle-aged widow. At first he cleans a little and complains a little. Then he slowly starts manifesting symptoms of mental disorder, conveying suggestions of physical violence. All the while he is also locking doors until the terrified housewife is completely his prisoner. The end is still some way off, but sufficiently gruesome when it comes...