Word: mania
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...lonesco will not tolerate this negation of individuality. He says that in the game he plays the part of the "madman" (the French chess term for what in English is the "bishop"). "The individual, I, the madman, am aware of my personality as a madman...It is an ideological mania these days to put the accent on the group. I for my part am perfectly able to place the emphasis on what is different, on what is not the others, even though it is with the others. I feel myself to be irreducible...
...there is also about Deep End, as in Skolimowski's other work, a kind of viciousness directed toward his characters that prevents his films from being fully successful. Skolimowski is interested in effects, not causes. Mike's mania and Susan's sadism are largely unmotivated, so that as characters they are little more than puppets in a savage Punch and Judy. The film's last scene, which is a frightening realization of one of Mike's most deranged dreams, should properly be shocking and pitiful. But it is singularly unsuccessful, despite the talents of John...
Growing Concentration. Washington's trustbusters have filed few major cases lately, but Richard McLaren, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, insists that there has been no slackening of zeal. The Administration's prime concern is controlling "merger mania," he explains, and recently there just have not been any big mergers to attack. Attorney General John Mitchell discouraged many corporate giants from contemplating merger by emphasizing in a 1969 speech that the Government would move to bar most acquisitions by the nation's 200 largest companies...
...refreshing to see that athletes aren't caught in the same success-mania that afflicts sportswriters...
...Napoleon's hair, which even Josephine would not have given a sou for, can today fetch upwards of $200. A frying pan used by Britain's "Great Train Robbers" when they were hiding out in a Midlands farmhouse in 1963 recently went for $120. Even so, the mania for Hitleriana is an especially puzzling phenomenon. In the past year, sales of Third Reich mementos have begun to rise sharply. A few of the collectors are old diehard Nazis like a former SS Gruppenführer who has a private museum in his Munich home. But young Germans...