Word: monomania
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Actually, my monomania vis-à-vis Paul Simon is not unique. It is just a particularly unfortunate manifestation of the monomania that consumes many of us during our Harvard careers. Living at home, I couldn’t listen to the same album over and over unmolested. (It’s not that I haven’t tried; over the summer, I kept a single mix CD in the car my brother and I share. After a few weeks, my brother threw down a gauntlet: “If I start the car and hear...
...short story “The Christian Roommates,” set at Harvard in the fifties, John Updike writes of the beginning of second semester: “Conversations go on and on; and an almost rapacious desire for mutual discovery possesses acquaintances.” Nowadays, a monomania this casual seems frivolous; the rapacious desire for mutual discovery remains, but we direct it towards our extracurricular activities...
Still, the very monomania of the Portuguese letter writer was intriguing. Why the fixation on the telephone? What was the subtext? To whom would someone pen such a peculiar letter? Or was “telephone” merely a code word? To whom had 501 Portuguese Verbs once belonged...
...hard-hitting Lovett, their relationship becomes less a partnership than an attempt by the latter to manipulate the former. In effect, the story has been stolen from the title character and given to Lovett, who fights an obviously doomed battle to dominate a man whose extreme monomania ultimately destroys them both...
...like some fidgety imitation of Woody Allen. "Back to the touching of your breasts for a minute," Lewinsky gets asked at one point in her testimony. "Was that then through clothing or actually, directly onto your skin?" The seamy, repetitive questions laid bare the puritanical monomania that infects this mad pursuit: "Would you agree that the insertion of an object into the genitalia of another person with the desire to gratify sexually would fit within the definition used in the Jones case as sexual relations...