Word: manias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...displays, but his own motive and reaction, unlike Elmer Gantry's, are recorded in art and not in bitter propaganda. Author Davies has crudities,of technique, but not of sympathy. A difficult undertaking, this analysis of the tortures of a sensitive man, harassed by women, consumed by religious mania, ends wretchedly when Reuben finds both lacking...
...more revealing juxtaposition and permitted to illustrate more admirably the fluctuation in the universal graduate and undergraduate mind. For, while there are some whose interest in the awarding of the degrees excludes the expenditure of any sentiment over the outcome of the boat race and others whose mania for a crimson victory on the Thames blinds them to the significance of the honors percentage. It is safe to say that these cases are the exception rather than the rule. In the majority which is composed happing of those who are able to maintain an equilibrium of interest and affection...
...gigantic hat, he whose shadow has so often swept across the screen of the University, has come from Hollywood, and he has shown that the mania for handling big receptions in a big way is not a growth that flowers only in the adult mind. The germ is implanted in the child's first consciousness, and flourishes from that time on. But though the mature can claim no monopoly in its possession, they alone are able to release it install its dazzling light. The top hats, the mile-long parade, and the tons of confetti are theirs alone...
...patient votaries of that curious collegiate cult called "Buchmanism," received last week one of the rebuffs upon which they thrive. The Oxford Isis published a scornful editorial which spoke of "restraint flung aside . . . souls laid bare . . . hysterical confessions . . . fervor which no longer pretends to be religious . . . perverted religious mania . . ." and concluded with these stern and sober words...
...unsound basis of his cure was the double chloride of gold. He prated: "It acts like vaccination, eliminating from the system the element which has an affinity for the poison in alcohol. . . . Gold acts on the higher cerebral nerve centres, the seat of the diseased will and the mania for strong drink." Because his treatment had some practical success, simple folks fixed their memories on gold. Therefore the subtle plausibility of the Haines Golden Treatment...