Word: claustrophobia
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...Catholics have an unhealthy attitude, too, says the Century-"Obvious claustrophobia." They feel surrounded, hedged in as a minority, and they respond by "reaching out, pressing out, pushing out, taking instant advantage of every weak spot . . ." This puts Protestantism on the defensive...
Occupational Therapy. In Buenos Aires, arrested for undertaking to cure liver ailments at $21.75 a treatment by having her patients dance the mambo, Healer Dona Pancha, 59, paused en route to jail to mix herself a magic potion of liquids, unguents and powders to ward off claustrophobia...
Chapman and Louis Coxe, co-authors of the play, used only two sets, but they are totally different, and there are six scene changes. When the curtain rises, the General's office is seen. The script says ". . . windowless, blank, austere walls. Sense of claustrophobia." Herrey achieved the desired effect by the use of a shallow stage and high ceiling...
Because Space Patrol is telecast from a former Hollywood movie lot where there is plenty of room for its spacemen to move around, it does not suffer from the "TV claustrophobia" of Eastern studios. A minor drawback of the show is the overabundance of interplanetary sound effects. The screams of jet planes drown out much of the dialogue. But it is no great loss, because the kids usually get the sense of what is going...
Norman Mailer has a bad case of moral claustrophobia. Viewed through his polarizing spectacles, all the dice are loaded, all the cards are marked, all the wheels are rigged. All the world's a cage, and all its men & women merely slayers. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, had enough of the juice of life to disguise this sophomoric fatalism. The only juice in Barbary Shore is embalming fluid...