Word: manias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...batch of fuzzy bunny ears to give a touch of costume and started plugging song & dance across the U.S. In cooperation with parents, who regard the dance as relatively sedate, if energetic, disk jockeys and Capitol press-agents have built The Bunny Hop into a minor teen-age mania...
...forward and easily communicative movements. In what seemed an endlessly repetitious opening figuration with gradually heightening harmonic tension, Mr. Des Marais seems to attempt an effect of the mystique. The harmonies grow harsher and harsher, and, after a mordant faster section, culminate in an extremely dissonant ending. Mr. Des Mania's experiment here is one of extended cumulative tension within one movement. I far one, did not find the experience wholly credible. But I look forward to a better appreciation of it after a few rehearings...
...movie opens in 1922 on the day of the scatterbrained inventor's death. Two flashbacks trace Friese-Greene's first wife's tribulations, which, when she dies, pass on to her successor. Mania Schell and Margaret Johnson are Friese-Greene's wives. By Hollywood standards neither girl is pretty, but both manage to give touching performances without being maudlin. Needless to say, the supporting cast is almost uniformly excellent...
Down here in New York the football fervor is reaching its customary stage of mild mania and this year they are tormenting us with a new charge, emanating primarily from Princeton. Our schedule, they claim, lacks virility. We must go on the offensive and you may be interested in a recent exchange of sentiments I had with a Princetonian. I think you will agree that their 24-game winning streak was a bit of a sham...
...hysteria was aggravated by the abnegations of convent life; she began to have daydreams, and later night sweats, about the handsome priest. She offered him the post of director of her convent, and Grandier refused. Thereupon, as Huxley reads the evidence, Sister Jeanne's fantasies turned into a mania for sadistic revenge...