Word: phobias
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Rudolph's whims have become campus parlance at Yale. He apotheosized the conversation pit, thinks cushions should replace furniture, has a phobia against locked doors. There is a streak of the romantic in Yale's young chairman of the department of architecture. He wishes his buildings to end as "beautiful ruins...
...devout Moslem, Nasution is antiCommunist, but has been prevented from really cracking down on Indonesia's Reds by Sukarno, who repeatedly warns against "Communist phobia." Only when the Communists use violence does Sukarno permit the army to intervene. Moreover, many of Indonesia's most ardent anti-Reds are in jail under Nasution's orders because they advocated more freedom than he thought was necessary...
Despite his widely trumpeted salvation through psychoanalysis, the silver screen's golden boy still nursed at least one phobia. Heading home from Argentina, where he had been on location with the Cossack classic, Taras Bulba, Tony Curtis made it to Manhattan by slow boat and, buoyed by a bracing abrazo from Wife Janet Leigh, entrained for the long overland run to Hollywood. Reason for Curtis time-consuming travel plan: an aversion to flying...
Secret Knowledge. Like any smart organization man. Eichmann realized he must develop a specialty to compensate for his lack of leadership qualities. His rather routine work of compiling dossiers on "subversive elements" suggested a convenient subject-the Jews, who were the pet phobia of der Fŭhrer himself. Eichmann began reading Jewish history and religion, made an effort to learn Yiddish and Hebrew. He dazzled his colleagues-whose hatred of Jews was only equaled by their ignorance about them-with speeches on such abstruse subjects as the factional differences between two small Zionist groups-Poale-Zion and Zeire-Zion...
Probably to most of us the most common phobia is triskaidekaphobia, or fear of the number...