Word: manias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, exquisitely molded bas-relief plaquettes often worn as neck pendants. In pursuit of perfection until his death in 1914, Dreyfus sometimes owned as many as five or six versions of the same medal in succession, settling only for the most flawless. The result of this mania was the collection of 1,306 bronzes (see opposite), that were newly installed this week in Washington's National Gallery as part of the gallery's 15th anniversary celebration...
Cause of Fascist Mania...
Tillich went on to say that pre-war Germans lost the criterion and the meaning of the church, and emphasized this as one of the main causes of the Fascist mania. "In America, we still have such criteria," said Tillich, "and this is why such potentially Fascist movements as McCarthy's can never succeed...
...could speak with feeling of the dry martini. "I suppose nothing can be done with people who put olives in martinis. Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best." He could also speak with feeling about the national mania for compiling subversive lists: "Nomination to them is the diagnostic test of decency for anyone who has a public forum...
...problem is paranoia: persecution mania. Because Roman Catholicism has made problems for us somewhere, we begin to see its threat everywhere. We feel chronically picked on, beaten down, abused . . . The fine Italian hand (which is usually here a fairly clumsy Irish one) is seen in everything...