Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the literary controversy that has raged in Moscow since Sholokhov's attack, the magazine New World, an organ of the Writers' Union, this month began publishing Bruno Yasienki's long-suppressed novel, The Plot of the Indifferent, with a preface by his widow referring to his...
Second Place. Last month, with an average daily volume of more than 10 million shares, the Toronto Stock Exchange repeatedly set new peaks: 208,086,000 shares changed hands in the 20-day trading period, v. New York's alltime record of 141,668,410 shares in the black...
A Walk on the Wild Side should carry a warning on the jacket: For Strong Stomachs Only. It is a picaresque story of the Depression, rich in shocking incident and rinsed in squalor that makes The Man with the Golden Arm seem like a novel of suburbia. Its hero is...
Dr. Louis le Guillant, director of the Center for Treatment and Social Readaptation at Villejuif, near Paris, reported in Presse Medicale that fully a third of the operators have feelings of "profound lassitude" or "veritable annihilation" at the end of a day. Some are so shaken that they take subways...
Sin, sin, sin. Morning and night, that was all they talked about in the little frame house in the California poor-town where Norma Jeane Baker lived in the early years of the Depression. "You're wicked, Norma Jeane," the old woman used to shrill at the little girl...