Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his success on the Brooklyn tundra, Maksik is a chronic worrier who believes that sooner or later his storied "Child's with music and a minimum" is bound to go the way of all the big clubs. "I'm in this business 21 years, and everyone always calls me a success, but how come I'm always borrowing money?" To that, a former associate replies: "Ben ain't in this to look at pretty girls in tights; he don't do nothin' that don't make money." Whatever else...
...President hopes for later this spring. But the President stands firm against a drastic antirecession tax cut before then. Said he in his speech to the Republican women: "This Administration is not going to be panicked by alarmists into activities that could actually make those hardships not temporary, but chronic...
Studio One in Hollywood: As a chronic stutterer who masqueraded as a deaf mute to avoid speaking, Fledgling Actor James MacArthur, 20, turned The Tongues of Angels into one of the best hours of Studio One since the rating-rickety show deserted Manhattan for Hollywood last January. The adopted son of Actress Helen Hayes and the late Play-Mright Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, young MacArthur caught the withdrawn dignity and explosive rage of a troubled teen-ager who was befriended and helped by a farm girl (Margaret O'Brien). His acting persevered over a plot that did wonders...
...Torrilhon interprets it, Bruegel's Mad Meg, in which a gaunt witch of a woman, clutching a variety of household objects, strides wildly under a flaming sky amid a hell's choir of monsters, is a painted description of "chronic hallucinatory psychosis due to menopause . . . The painting is full of obscene little monsters, and Meg seems obsessed by genital hallucinations. Two other symptoms are her careless and bizarre dress and her mania for collecting things. It is well known that old women suffering from this type of psychosis have a mania for carrying all their belongings...
...hooky-players and teacher-sassers. Many of them were knife-toting youngsters awaiting trial on such charges as robbery, assault and rape; many others had been convicted and turned back into the schools on parole or suspended sentences. Some could not be notified immediately of their suspension; they were chronic truants. Others, ironically, took the news with chagrin. Said one principal: "They felt they couldn't be touched. They didn't want to be in school in the first place, but when we told them we didn't want them, that was different...