Word: phobias
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Diem, they charge, has a phobia about any criticism. In last year's rigged elections, one opposition candidate unexpectedly won a seat in the National Assembly. As he walked up the steps of the Assembly building to attend his first parliamentary meeting, he was arrested and accused of such infractions of the law as starting his campaign too early and making "false promises" to the voters. In April, a group of 18 former officials, ranging from the president of the Vietnamese Red Cross to the brother of the Ambassador to the U.S., petitioned Diem to liberalize his regime. Diem...
...Foremost, perhaps, is: "Throw away the skillet and the deep-fat fryer." Dr. Jordan's aversion (she calls it a phobia) to frying is that it incorporates the fat more securely in the basic food so that the stomach has to work harder to digest it. Another injunction has been dubbed "Nap and nip." Hard-pressed executives, Dr. Jordan holds, should have a quiet lunch, free from stressful business talk, and a cat nap afterward; then they should have one or two highballs (she believes in tall, diluted drinks, is dead set against cocktails) to relax them before dinner...
Ross distrusted most of those who wrote for The New Yorker, says Thurber. "He nursed an editorial phobia about what he called the functional: 'bathroom and bedroom stuff.' Years later he deleted from a Janet Planner 'London Letter' a forthright explanation of the nonliquid diet imposed upon the royal family and dignitaries during the coronation of George VI. 'So-and-so can't write a story without a man in it carrying a woman to bed,' he wailed. And again, 'I'll never print another [John] O'Hara story...
...often violent contrast, where one-story brick huts jostle jerry-built skyscrapers, contraception clinics adjoin pagodas, Russian-built air transports load cargo from peditrucks. And, despite the chauvinistic pride that leads Communist functionaries and editors to date all progress from 1949, he found that "selfcriticism is almost a national phobia...
...ever at playing fictional charades with good and evil. His U.S. idealist, born out of Greene's pathological anti-Americanism, comes off only a little worse than his morally bankrupt Englishman, but the book's importance lies in the fact that many Europeans share Greene's phobia...