Word: manias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legs. At the height of that folly, smoke was belching from millions of tiny, homemade backyard steel furnaces stoked by peasants-a fantastic waste of manpower that eventually resulted in serious food shortages. When the do-it-yourself mania finally ran its course, China's economy had been set back by nearly a decade...
...months later, I was back in Cambridge, and another reading period mania was settling in. It was just too bleak out to go anywhere, and it was one of those terrible periods when you already knew the last Beatles album by heart, and you knew there wouldn't be another one for months, and you had been to Tommy's so often that it only made things worse...
Flight. As Stephanie's guest, Stanley plunges into the brilliant intellectual and social haut monde in Salzburg for the music festival. He is a self-conscious blunderer, but the one thing he understands far better than his indifferent friends is the true nature of Hitler's mania. The Jew and Gentile gathered to hear Toscanini conduct Fidelia cling to the illusion that Austria is protected by some ineluctable immunity. But after watching his barber preen in his new National Socialist uniform, and after seeing the troopers take over the best restaurants, Stanley knows that he must...
...when it comes to out-Heroding Herod, nothing can match the great millimeter mania. It is not enough that cigarette ads, which seem to be one endless round of jingle-jangle whoop-de-do by a babbling brook or out there in Marlboro Country, are among the more mindless on TV.* Now they are engaged in a dreary interior dialogue. In reply to Chesterfield's joshing boast that its 101s are "a silly millimeter longer," Winston Super Kings scoff: "It's not how long you make it." Right, says Pall Mall 100s. What counts is whether you're "longer...
Speculative Worries. During the last new-issue spree in 1961, small investors were seized by a mania for almost any company with onics in its name-and thousands were burned when the stock market collapsed in 1962. Many brokers contend that the average caliber of companies bringing out stock this year runs considerably higher. Still, there are worries. In a "thin market," the price of speculative securities can plunge as swiftly as it can rise...