Word: manias
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Barack Obama has won the 2008 election. No one should be surprised. In the past several months, we all bore witness to his meteoric rise, which coincided with John McCain’s meteoric fall. As the majority of the country rejoices in Obama-mania, we die-hard McCainiacs can’t help but feel sorry for ourselves...
Forget about campaign posters, or emails, or leaflets, or door-to-door canvassing. The last two weeks of this election season, as one Ohio congressman put it, are going to be all about "robo-mania...
...students of the time. "It falls within the context of that era," says Ondrej Tuma, director of the Institute for Contemporary History . "The Czechoslovak society, and especially the young people, the intellectuals, were crazy about the Communist ideology. They were absolutely serious about it, including the propaganda and spy-mania. Thousands and thousands of young people would have acted the same...
...very different approach to the crisis our country faced. At first he didn't want to get involved. Then he was 'monitoring the situation.' That's not leadership; that's watching from the sidelines." And I thought of Karl Rove. Back in 2003, at the height of Howard Dean mania, Rove was skeptical about Dean's staying power as a candidate: "When was the last time Americans elected an angry President...
...Islamism is then the ideology of Islam, or rather a belief system with an inadequate basis in a belief system with no basis in reality. So you can see why someone who prizes rationality would have a problem with that. And Amis minces no words.Islamism, that deranged mania, is the fuel to terrorism’s apparently unstoppable machine. “It is not merely violent in tendency,” Amis writes. “Violence is all that is there.” It is a despicable yet undeniably powerful state of mind, one that swallows...