Word: manias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mesa Drag Strip in San Diego, and the rodders "got all shook up." Consensus: "Man, that really comes on like a bomb," "Greatest invention since the wheel," "Real catbird," etc. Last week, as a result, record counters across the nation began filling up with material for a new musical mania...
...Jacques Tati), a sad-faced, gangling, rural postman who looks like a cross between General Charles de Gaulle and oldtime silent Comic Charles Chase. On the annual fair day (jour de fête), François sees a movie about high-speed American postal methods and develops a mania for movement...
Safe in harness, Sergeant Jenkins settled down in a U.S. Army dependent house in Yokohama with his wife Mania Etta, who is also 71, and as spry as her husband. Mrs. Jenkins helped put Yokohama orphanages back on their feet, spent most of her time working with the district Red Cross and raising funds for Japanese charities. When they learned that the Jenkinses were due for reassignment this month to the U.S., 1,400 Japanese friends signed a petition asking the Army to extend their tour. "We truly believe," they wrote, "that Mrs. Jenkins is one whom God himself...
...banned for criticizing the soap opera mania...
...married, had only one important love affair: with Louise Colet, a literary beauty with considerable experience as the mistress of authors. A large part of the affair, for Flaubert, seems to have consisted in writing her dismally joyless letters: "Maybe it is my heart that is impotent. This deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my own doubts." He kept going back to the theme: "I have never been able to give myself up to love; there is something so ridiculous about it. Sometimes I have wanted to please some woman, but I have been so struck...