Word: manias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French woman's walking costume with robe a l'anglaise reflects the rage for English styles that prevailed during the late 1700's. The costume's bonnett is bigger than any lampshade I've ever seen. A mania for classical antiquity around the turn of the nineteenth century produced, among other items in the exhibit, a French promenade dress with a very high empire waist and very, very low decolletage. This is a particularly interesting specimen because of the strikingly French robe effect attained by the use of shirring, folds, and trains. The mannequins sporting low necklines are invariably placed...
...once supplied civil servants for many other French colonies and boasted that "brains are our biggest export"; now it has an increasingly serious white-collar unemployment problem, for newly independent West African nations train their own government officials. The Dahomey rioters also denounced President Maga's "squander-mania," notably the magnificent palace he built himself...
...them altogether. To show that its diatribes were not just cocktail talk, the government last week stripped Artillery Chief Marshal Sergei Varenstov of his rank for having befriended Penkovsky, disciplined some of "the scientist's other friends and boozing companions." "Of course," added Pravda, "we are against spy mania...
...British are succumbing to the U.S. mania for trading stamps, and another Battle of Britain is under way. Thirty trading-stamp companies are already in operation, giving out stamps in 35,000 stores. Britain's Green Shield, which sells 60% of all the stamps in circulation, has done so well in four years that it has hiked its sales force from 12 to 250, doubled its premiums catalogue to 64 pages and moved from cramped quarters into a 13-story London headquarters...
...George Kennan's observation that "the theory of the inevitability of the eventual fall of capitalism has the fortunate connotation that there is no hurry about it." Fulbright compared the Communists to Hitler's Nazi Germany, observing that "neither Stalin nor his successors have exhibited anything like the suicidal mania of Hitler's Germany...