Word: mania
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...only that but he had also gotten the goggles and gloves and taught her how to mix.”As his death approached, Bingham became harder on his friends.“Toward the end, his drive toward the good increased to the verge of mania,” McClure writes in an e-mail. “With time running short, Barry grew impatient with the people who loved him most. I saw this as a reflection of Barry’s impatience with himself, with his failing health, and his impatience with our inability to close...
...first started off as just paranoia. It's like looking around you, there's 100 people: in cars, sitting down, standing up, walking, running, and [you think] they're all following you and they're all trying to hurt you. From that came the terrible mania, when I would be so happy that I just couldn't see straight, I couldn't do anything. For six months after my diagnosis of bipolar, I literally could not read, write or talk. When I would attempt to read the words would stumble off the page. I would try to write, my hands...
...denying the results, which were largely untainted by any non-soccer factors. The stocks weren't big gainers before or after. They showed unusual strength only in the three-month periods. The idea, then, was to let the market identify stocks that benefited from Europe's soccer mania--without requiring an abundance of fundamental logic. "We recommend investing in these stocks immediately and closing the investment on the final day of the World Cup," the UBS guys write. And how. Certainly, Coke and Fuji have been dogs for years even if others, like Heineken, have been steady winners...
...being a little harsh, of course. The Times' survey comes with a lengthy, elegant essay couching the whole project in a comfy coccoon of critical nuance, pre-emptively name-checking "the deplorable modern mania for ranking, list-making and fabricated competition" before vigorously succumbing to it. (It also includes the regrettable phrase "in the age of James Frey." Moratorium? Who's with me?) It's not the least of its sins, but it has to be said that the Times list is aggressively boring. I was surprised and pleased - like running into a dear friend at a deadly dull cocktail...
...very least, the prospect of a low grade often dissuades Harvard students from taking classes they otherwise might. The overall affect of this GPA-mania on the quality of our undergraduate education is regrettable...