Word: mania
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...style, the Byzantine rules of client diplomacy. Though the comparison may seem incongruous, Dillon's approach to his professional world resembles Mystery Writer Dick Francis' to the ambience of horse racing (TIME, May 22). Both authors fairly radiate authenticity born of total immersion in the subject, a mania for getting detail right, and a sympathetic ear for the nuances and cliches of shoptalk...
Manic-depressive illness, or psychosis, is one of the most common and clearly defined, yet one of the most baffling of emotional disorders. The victim may seem normal for months, then enter a period of mania in which, as one imaginative psychiatrist described it, he "comes in swinging from chandeliers that aren't there." Back to normal for a while, he may next become depressed, sometimes suicidally...
...most dismaying consequences of the spectacular manic act is that it breeds more mania. The current case in point is skyjacking, which has seemed to proceed this year at an almost exponential rate (see box, next page). Last week's dismaying tally: four major attempts, three within the U.S., all involving U.S. commercial aircraft...
Future programs, like last week's, will be underwritten by private foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts and researched by Music Historian Vera Brodsky Lawrence, whose mania for musical Americana has resulted in the publication of the complete music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and of Ragtime Composer Scott Joplin (TIME, Feb. 7). With such continued aid and support, says Hill, "we want to do a dozen or more programs like this one. Even that would barely scratch the surface...
...Mille from such preposterous imaginary views of antiquity as Piranesi's frontispiece for his book of drawings called Magnificenze di Roma. Every monument and fragment along the Appian Way, plus a few dozen that never existed, is jammed into it. The line between archaeological commitment and sheer mania was, in Piranesi, very thin...