Word: manic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remote Reich cities, discontent deep in the underground chambers of the Westwall fortifications (". . . Dugouts are crammed with munitions ... air is foul ... a shortage of food. . . ."). An anonymous physician, just back from Germany, was quoted as saying that Adolf Hitler was under an alienist's care for paranoid manic-depression...
Almost as common an effect is a marked tendency to garrulousness, not quite in the ordinary manic form of a rush of speech with a flight of ideas, but rather like the sprightly chatter of the good conversationalist who knows he is good...
...could a man stand on a window ledge for eleven hours ignoring the calls of nature, pondering death? The question plagued every Manhattanite last week. Psychiatrists offered a psychiatric answer. Warde had a manic-depressive psychosis (alternating fits of madness and despair), and in a moment of extreme depression he had rushed to the window. But he had not made up his mind to kill himself. In addition to his depression he was suffering from schizophrenia (split personality), and schizophrenics have the power to forget their bodies, to remain for hours in one position, no matter how painful or precarious...
...sponsor, Cartoonist Max Fleischer, was the necessity of making hippy, squeaky, short-skirted Betty Boop play second fiddle to a new jitter bug creature named Sally Swing. Eight-year-old relic of the plastic, or boop-boop-a-doop, age of jazz music, Betty had successfully weathered the Afro-manic, or hi-de-ho, period without once being referred to as corny. But to the orgiastic, or zazz-u-zazz, generation Betty's presence "has been like having grandma occupying one end of the sofa all evening. A wide-eyed, sportily clad lass with a dink perched on loosely...
...OUTWARD ROOM-Millen Brand- Simon & Schuster ($1.25). Story of a girl who cured herself of manic depressive insanity, with a happy ending that is plausible if not probable. A distinguished first novel...