Word: manias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...servants against their masters, the ambitious classes against the declining classes, the hegemonic races against the vassal races, the ruling peoples against the peoples under their yoke. The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities; the pruriency of pleasure, the gnawing of torture, the mania for liberty, the increase of shackles...
...list for a year with only one comeback - the bookplate full of Greek statuary you sent by mistake to the friends who believe that Art should be draped. Then you begin comparing notes with others on their bookplates - collecting bookplates, even - and you are in the toils of a mania as rabid as that of the first edition collector, and will never get away...
Professor Albert Moeil of Berlin, who says that marathon dancing is a form of " mass hysteria," anim-adverts thus: "Such mass hysteria occurs periodically. The present dance marathon is comparable to the dance mania in the middle ages which was followed by flagellantism- monks and others whipping themselves as penitents...
...Matrimonial Mania...
Syracuse University has adopted a dry-land rule whereby the marriage of a student automatically cancels his or her connection with the university. The rule, which is in accordance with the statutes of other universities, was adopted as a restriction upon the " matrimonial mania " which is said to have been devastating American universities since...