Word: hystericism
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Disneyland has always represented something more than a conventional amusement park. The intricacy of the animation of the robots, the college of Disney versions of basic American folklore, the reduction and recreation of American mythology in a world designed basically for preadolescents are all disturbing indications that Disneyland is too...
The same tale of jealousy, love betrayed and suffering as Hollywood's 1939 heartthrobber The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, the new Devereux was even more of a showpiece for Beverly Sills than the film was for Bette Davis. Absent from the New York stage for more than...
"Under Massachusetts laws," the fine print reads, "this ticket is a revocable license. If sold or offered for sale at a premium it becomes void." During most of the year, this warning is about as relevant as the Nineteenth Amendment. As the Yale game approaches, ticket scalping becomes hysteric, and...
Perhaps Christina Stead's latest book should not be reviewed, but exorcised. It purports to be a novel of British working-class life, but its overt socialist propaganda and its covert hints of dark doings in sex and some sort of spiritualism make it the queerest mixture of the...
Furthermore, Dr. Davison confirms the diagnosis of other historians that Mary suffered from an acutely active gastric ulcer. He also concludes that in terms of modern psychiatry she was a medically certifiable hysteric. He blames her neurosis on her troubled childhood in the first instance, and unusual height. As a...