Word: mania
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...Opus Jazz, before brilliant backdrops by Ben Shahn, cool cats off the city streets wander through the compulsive variations of "The Slop," Robbins' reproduction of a minor juvenile mania. Five boys and one girl horse around on a rooftop, spelling out the amoral communal sex of the tenements. A Negro boy and a white girl grope through their loneliness, reaching out with palms that never quite touch. The whole show adds up to the first hit of the fall season. At 39, Dance Master Jerry is still making the guests happy...
...will be attacked on moral grounds, but he humorously questions the moral standards of at least some U.S. publishers. One firm, he notes, offered to publish the book three years ago if he turned Lolita from a girl into a boy-homosexuality presumably being much more acceptable than nymphet-mania...
Dulcinea Smith is a witless, bromidic, meddlesome but well-meaning woman with a mania for engineering other people's lives. She gives a weekend house-party, and manages to have a finger in every pie and a foot in every mouth. She tries to fix her husband's business deals and do a little matchmaking on the side. She spouts cliches and misquotations with amazing volubility. It is she who arranges a bridge game before supper because "it would be sort of soothing," and then proceeds to ask whether hearts are higher than spades and whether she "should discard from...
...then gave up muscle nurture to practice medicine, has headed the university's health service since 1934. Himself a seven-letter man at the University of Wisconsin and an all-Western fullback in 1908. Dr. Wilce did more than any other coach to give Columbus a permanent football mania, led his teams to three Western Conference championships. He studied bone mending between sessions of bone breaking, earned his M.D. in 1919, went on to do research on the effect of athletics on the heart (conclusion: no permanent damage). Wilce had an intellectual's approach to football, once experimented...
...North Carolina was gripped by a talkathon mania, and the leading contestants were all women. Fayetteville's radio station WFLB set the format: the contestants started talking before an audience outside the plate-glass window of a TV appliance store, kept on until exhaustion, sleep or urgencies of nature ended the ordeal. Other North Carolina stations matched WFLB's stunt, upped the prize value progressively to $3,000. Sue Huron, a Pittsburgh secretary of 22, kept Fayetteville station WFAI busy crackling out regular reports on her monologue of 92 hrs. 1 min. 4 sec. Then Kansas got into...