Word: claustrophobia
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...result of the supposed wreck is an almost universal claustrophobia, a feeling that everybody is trapped by the debris, and that the ways out are worse than the fact of being trapped. The alternative posed by Author Lerner, for example, is totalitarian socialism as an escape from totalitarian fascism. Author Chamberlin, on the other hand, deems it wiser simply to lie low, meanwhile poking in the wreck age, in the hopeless hope that some clue will somehow lead to some other escape...
...Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like a sunken battleship, the fortress throbbed eight hours a day as Diesels pumped in air and light. At 10 o'clock the motors stopped. The lights went out. Then sleep in Chambrun's concrete cell battled with claustrophobia. The first night he had to climb up to the iron entrance and gasp for fresh air through the crack above the concrete sill. "Just pretend you are a monk living in the Middle Ages," counseled Bentz, his cellmate. After a month of living like a mole, Chambrun became acclimatized...
...England last winter built an underground air raid shelter. Last fortnight, bank members in charge of Air Raid Precautions sent an elaborate health questionnaire to all employes to find out if they could withstand prolonged imprisonment in the narrow, crowded shelter. Among the questions: "Do you suffer from claustrophobia...
...amazement of A. R. P. organizers, 95% of the women employes answered "Yes." Calling in the chief of the women's division, the organizers asked her if she had explained to the girls exactly what claustrophobia meant. "Oh yes," said she, "I told them it meant being afraid of confinement...
Contemporaries sometimes accused Boone of being a misanthrope who liked Indians better than white men. Biographer Bakeless agrees with Boone that this was a libel. But if Boone got a reputation for claustrophobia it was his own fault; he himself made up most of the jokes about needing elbowroom. (His favorite was the story that when he learned of a new neighbor 70 miles away he turned to his wife Rebecca, declared: "Old woman, we must move, they are crowding us.") Fact is, says Biographer Bakeless, Boone sought elbowroom in the vain hope of finding a new country where...