Word: phobias
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Gaveled Fingers. In both private and public life, he has what amounts to a phobia about letting decisions hang fire. (Once he starts a whodunit for relaxation, he cannot relax until he reads through to the end.) At the Statehouse he has tackled problems which have been gathering dust in pigeonholes for years. One of the most urgent economic problems concerns Massachusetts' migrating manufacturers. Herter is well aware that New England is in economic straits because much of her industry has been moving to other parts of the country. But he has not placed the blame entirely on immutable...
...Warren House has a phobia, most likely it is a microphobia, a fear of smallness. The English department's undergraduate courses, especially the basic English 10, are noted for their grand, sweeping approach to English literature, and a relentless pace to boot. The Department has always eschewed specialized courses at the lower levels to favor the large survey type approach to literature...
Menon saw no connection between the death of Stalin and the softening of Soviet policy toward the West. "Unlike most Americans," he said. "Indians have no terror or phobia of the Communists. In India we don't say. "Thank God the man is dead...
...manifesto proclaims that it will "strive to give predominant space to the fiction and poetry of both established and new writers, rather than to people who use words like Zeitgeist." The manifesto was written by William Styron, young author of the excellent novel "Lie Down in Darkness," whose pet phobia is the word, "Zeitgeist." He writes in the preface to the first issue of "The Paris Review" that "I still don't like the word, perhaps because, complying with the traditional explanation of intolerance, I am ignorant of what it means." The wheel has come full circle...
...Warfare. Mrs. Frazier left Perryopolis as a young woman in 1887, and only returned once in all the 61 years before she died in 1948. But tales of her eccentricities drifted back to local ears. After her first husband, a prominent Philadelphia physician, died in 1917, she developed a phobia against germs. When she was ill, she made a practice of renting a whole floor at New York's Doctors Hospital to keep other germ carriers at a distance. She bought dozens of pairs of white gloves, wore them constantly, saw to it that each was dipped in antiseptic...