Word: delirium
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...German prisoners of war, crawling back from the Bolshevik wastes after World War I, brought with them legends of the escape of one of the Russian royal family. In 1920 the half-dead body of an unidentified young woman was dragged from a Berlin canal. She claimed in semi-delirium that she was Anastasia. Two years passed before even the girl herself, closeted in a mental hospital, could piece together a coherent story of how, aided by two brothers named Tchaikovsky, she had been carried out of the cellar and across Russia into Rumania. No Tchaikovsky ever showed...
...produced the most authoritative acting-and one of the finest voices-in Baritone Kenneth Smith, who played General Kutuzov with sinewy dignity. High point of the opera came in one of the closing scenes, in which Andrey and Natasha were reunited as Andrey lay on his deathbed. Through his delirium he hears a pulsing beat, played in the orchestra by the strings sul ponticello (bow strokes near the bridge), and echoes it over and over again in a faint, falling cry. In one of Prokofiev's most dramatic musical inventions, the orchestra announces Andrey's approaching death...
...Call. Gabby was not told she had cancer, but knew it. She had courage to lend and, after one trying day, told her mother that she had looked worried, "and I don't like that. I expect you to go through all these things without breaking down." In delirium, the child cried out in a singsong voice: "The call is coming, the call is coming." It was prophetic. The convulsions began, and the bright spirit slowly burned away. Nothing was spared, for there even came a day when Gabby's blood count suddenly became normal; her liver improved...
...next 13 years, Sade transmuted his sexual aberrations into a philosophical theory. Where Rousseau argued that man was naturally good, Sade declared with savage cynicism that man is naturally evil "in the delirium of his passions as much as when they are calm, and in both cases the ills of his fellows can become the source of execrable pleasure to him." He insisted that man fully realized himself only in the expression of his natural, i.e., cruel, impulses, that even sexual pleasure was most intense when it was accompanied by the infliction of pain. Society had no right to condemn...
Used in low doses and for no more than about two weeks, proclorperazine is reported to give prompt tranquility to 86% of patients suffering from anxiety, agitation, agitated depression, tension, confusion, restlessness, senile agitation and alcoholic delirium. It lets patients sleep well at night and (unlike chlorpromazine) does not make them drowsy during...