Word: claustrophobia
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...book is one vast notions counter of half-fashioned ideas on life, love and literature. Its central proposition is the trite one that no one can swim in the sea of life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality quirks that sometimes go with it. At its frequent worst, it is a mishmash of joyless fornication, head-splitting hangovers, and a neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word...
...with 3,600 jet hours, but Stapp had him take special training for ten months. He qualified as a balloon pilot, also got a paratrooper's rating by making ten parachute jumps. He learned to fly helicopters (often an unnerving experience for an airplane pilot) and took ten claustrophobia tests (24 hours each, sealed in a capsule). He worked with the experts of Winzen Research, Inc. of Minneapolis, makers of the balloon that he would "fly. For several weeks before the flight he was in rigid physical training...
Airtight Case. In Dayton, Ky. Dick Beuerlein, 24, escaped from jail where he was being held on a reckless-driving charge, was recaptured two hours later explained to cops: "I've got claustrophobia...
...other member of the cast, John Mautner, manages to get some humor into his portrayal of an attendant in hell. Much of the success of all these actors can be credited to director Jay Shuchter, who also prevented the small size of the stage from creating a feeling of claustrophobia...
Slum clearance in St. Louis, a Senate investigation of religious freedom, a hassle in Princeton, N.J. over Planned Parenthood and the Community Chest-all such civil affairs may become bitter emotional issues between Protestant and Catholic Christians. "Catholic claustrophobia and Protestant paranoia-these are the matched complexes that tear up American Christendom. What bothers most at this Reformation anniversary, though, is the amount of Protestantism that thinks itself best and most vigorously expressed in terms of that suspicion and resentment...