Word: deliriums
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...humble. Publishers were "consummate knaves," and his own "a blockhead." He found Charles Lamb "a miserable, drink-besotted, spindle-shanked skeleton of a body, whose 'humour' as it is called, seemed to me neither more nor less than a fibre of genius shining thro' positive delirium and crackbrainedness." Robert Browning was "loudish and talkative beyond need." Even Emerson, who boosted Carlyle's American reputation and mailed him his U.S. royalties, irked the grumpy Scot with his perennial good temper and "unsubduable placidity...
...University of California's radiation laboratory, was hospitalized for neurological observation. Civilian doctors who soon diagnosed Twitchell's illness as cancer passed their diagnosis on to the Atomic Energy Commission, for whom he worked. The AEC, fearful that Twitchell might disclose atomic secrets during periods of delirium, promptly moved the young engineer into a private room in the Letterman Army Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio. Last week William Twitchell died, thereby at last escaping the 24-hour-a-day surveillance which specially screened male nurses had maintained over him for the past two months...
...obsessed to the point of delirium with the personality of Hitler, which always came to me as a woman . . . The softness of that Hitlerian flesh under his military tunic created in me a state of gustatory, milky, nutritious, Wagnerian ecstasy, which made my heart beat violently." This vision had nothing to do with politics, says Dali, but he soon found himself defending his position at a meeting of French surrealists...
Botch-a-me (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). Another piece of bumptiousness ("botch-a-me" is Tin-Pan-Alley Italian for "kiss me") from the girl who made Come On-a My House a limited national delirium last summer. No better than most sequels...
...seemed to be recovering dashed through the narrow streets shouting that enemies were after them. A small boy tried to throttle his mother. Gendarmes went from house to house, collecting pieces of the deadly bread to be sent to Marseille for analysis. Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead. Pont-Saint-Esprit's hospital reported four attempts at suicide...