Word: crichtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noted Psychiatrist Hugh Crichton-Miller did not consider this man a coward but a victim of anxiety neurosis. In the British Lancet last week he reported that the man had a father who beat his wife & children. (Said the patient: " 'e took a great 'obby in knockin' mother about.") In World War I, the patient had a chance to "retaliate" against his savage father by shooting at Germans. But in an air raid he is helpless, there is no one he can attack. Other troubles helped to break down his morale: 1) his wife; 2) infected teeth...
Physicians treating victims of air-raid neuroses, warned Dr. Crichton-Miller, must examine every detail of their patients' lives and bodies. Examples...
...Communists could count among their allies such names as Granville Hicks, Newton Arvin, Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Matthew Josephson, Kyle Crichton (Robert Forsythe), Malcolm Cowley, Donald Ogden Stewart, Erskine Caldwell, Dorothy Parker, Archibald MacLeish, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, John Steinbeck, George Soule, many another...
...Handsome Irish Major John Henry George Crichton, 8th Earl of Erne and Lord-in-Waiting to the King, whose father died in France in 1914, was killed fighting a new generation of the same foe. The earldom descended to his son, aged...