Word: incubus
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...visit his wife on furlough. But the doubts that the villagers implanted refused to vanish. When Raymond's book appeared, with its story of an adolescent who had got his older mistress with child shortly before her husband's return, Gaston's uncertainty became an incubus. He sent his son away and refused to have anything more to do with the child. Sensitive to every look askance in the village streets, he took his wife to another town and after that to still another...
Smug Little Incubus. Author Brophy is Londoner of Irish descent. At 24 she writes clean, cool English prose, shows a perceptive grasp of her material and has turned out a pointed and amusing little satire. Her last chapter, entitled "Soliloquy of an Embryo," follows the brief career of Edwina's "snug, smug self-sufficient little incubus." It is the kind of fantastic literary device that only a very competent and very serene writer could bring off. Author Brophy manages...
Injuries, a season-long incubus, have hampered the Crimson again. Third midfielder Pete Palches is definitely out, which means that Munro will have only two lines able to meet the Elie might on anything like even terms...
...group has grown out of its athletic incubus into an ambitious and individualized organization. Most of its members take dancing lessons in Boston. Others teach modern dance during the summer. But for all, the Dance Group offers the only opportunity for public...
...result of too little self-indulgence, but of too much; not of over-restraint and inhibition, but of irresponsibility, guilt and immaturity. "Above all," Mowrer concluded, ". . . the ethical accomplishment of untold past generations, as imbedded in the conscience of modern men & women, is not a stupid, malevolent archaic incubus, but a challenge and guide for the individual in his quest for self-fulfillment and harmonious integration." (For a psychologist, it was almost a psalm...