Word: mania
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...Equity has been drained of a good fourth of its male rank & file. Casting takes longer and has to be warier: many an actor still here today may be gone tomorrow. Most available chorus men have either hairless cheeks or hairless heads. Already an all-girl revue, Femme-Mania...
Ever since the first alien Bowen muscled his way with Cromwell into County Cork, ten generations of Bowen gentry have had a mania for land. For without land the Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry had nothing. In Catholic Ireland, they were spiritual aliens, "people of the ruins...
...House Naval. Affairs Committee finally got the whole story of the Lincoln Electric Co.'s bonus system last week, it looked like something else again. It was, in fact, the story of an eight-year-old wage and production policy established by a Cleveland electrical engineer with a mania for incentive...
...play itself is frisk, witty, and occasionally over-brittle in the usual Kaufman-Hart style. It revolves with enjoyable triviality about the back-to-nature mania of a city bred business man who buys a dilapidated farmhouse and then sees his hopes of an idyllic old age threatened, respectively, by a wife whose love for things rural extends very little beyond Central Park, a mortgage held by the neighborhood crank, and the explosion of a rich uncle myth into the reality of a parasitical poor relation...
...added barb: Wagner's own granddaughter, Friedelind, introducing Britannia, said: "Wagner wrote [it] because he loved and admired the spirit of the British people. . . . However, he did not write a Get -mania to glorify the German spirit. He wrote the Twilight o/ the Gods...