Word: manias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sheer consistency, even Bergman's themes have Doppelgangers. The paranoid artist could be Bergman himself or it could be any artist. Johan might be skirting high society out of fear of sexual humiliation or from feelings of freakishness. His mania might derive more from sexual dissatisfaction with the rather homely Alma than from any frustration with the way his neighbors' treat him. Johan obviously suffers his insanity so we feel compassion for him, but his moods make him too unpleasant to be truly sympathetic...
...been four probusiness cycles in the U.S. since 1850: the post-Civil War "Gilded Age" ending in the 1880s; the Roaring Twenties; the post-World War II expansion from 1950 to the mid-'60s; and the current cycle, which began in the late '70s and has seen the merger mania of the '80s extend into the present. All previous cycles lasted about 12 to 20 years and ended in periods of heavy regulation. There are now signs, says the Report, that "strategic overreaching is already provoking a new countertide." Among the symptoms: public opinion worried about the ruling party...
Deals like the one between Chase and Chemical have aggravated concerns about the impact of bank-merger mania on employees and customers. The new giant, which will take the better-known Chase Manhattan name even though Chemical is larger, will hold nearly $300 billion in assets and eclipse its New York City neighbor Citicorp as the largest U.S. banking company. Enthusiastic investors boosted the price of both Chase and Chemical stock more than 10% in a day, expecting the increased efficiency of the combined banks to send profits zooming. But to pare annual expenses by $1.5 billion within three years...
During mild mania, people with the illness are infused with energy and vision. They think faster, more clearly and with greater originality. "I could fly through star fields and slide along the rings of Saturn,'' writes Jamison of her episodes. Were it not for her disease, she says, "I would not have accomplished the same things." Nor, she maintains, would many famed artists...
Signs of trouble were present for Jamison from an early age. The daughter of an Air Force meteorologist and a teacher, she was mercurially moody as a child and became severely depressed as an adolescent. At 16 she felt the first intoxicating high of mild mania. The disease quickly worsened. During her 20s she careened through increasingly florid manias and overlapping depressions. "People usually think of mania and depression existing separately," says Jamison, "but the most dangerous episodes are the ones which combine mania's racing thoughts and impulsivity with depression's despair. That's often when people...