Word: dementiaism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American man has high standards for everything but marriage. As long as his wife doesn't run off with another man, commit suicide, develop acute dementia praecox, or stab him with the carving knife, he considers his marriage reasonably successful. . . [The American woman] is frustrated, unfulfilled, humiliated, and bored by the routine existence that passes for family life in her native land. If Groggle doesn't change, she can only hope to get worse...
Passions of Slobberlips McJab. Capp also sees to it that his readers are fed liberal quantities of sex, Dogpatch style-a style which incorporates the absurder aspects of mayhem and dementia. On occasion the woomanship of Appassionata Van Climax, the Wolf Gal, Adam Lazonga and Slobberlips McJab has resembled the more vehement techniques of Lizzie Borden and Strangler Lewis...
Died. Waslav Nijinsky, 60, the ballet dancer whose brilliant, ten-year career of flawless grace and soaring leaps became romantic legend after he was pronounced incurably insane (dementia praecox) in-1919; of a kidney ailment; in London. Born and schooled in Russia, he set European balletomanes abuzz in 1911 when he danced Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, and L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune in Serge Diaghilev's new ballet company which opened in Paris. In 1916 he toured the Americas, where his fame mounted while his mental health declined (he began to identify himself with...