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Birth and circumstances drove Greene to a life on the edge. Congenitally unhappy with what he later called his manic-depressive self, he found himself a double agent at a tender age, a student at the Berkhamsted School, where his father reigned as headmaster. Naturally, his classmates made his life miserable, and Greene sought retreat in voracious reading. But the drama served up by his favorite authors (among them John Buchan and Joseph Conrad) reminded Greene that he had been born at an unpropitious time. "We were," he wrote, "a generation brought up on adventure stories who had missed...
...Israeli newspaper. In the recent issue of the Biblibcal Archaeological Review, there appears a glib bio of Strugnell under the heading "Major Players" in the Scroll project. Strangely enough, the author can't seem to decide whether he loves or hates the man he describes as a manic-depressive, alcoholic anti-Semite...
...Strugnell. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Professor of Christian origins at Harvard Divinity School. Never wrote a book. A wonderful teacher. A generous, caring mentor. An original member of the scroll editing team, appointed in 1953 at age 23. Since 1987, chief editor of the scroll editing team. An alcoholic. A manic-depressive. An anti-Semite. Rabidly anti-Israel. Warm and friendly to individual Jews and Israelis. Beloved by many of his students; others regard him as arrogant. Does not suffer fools gladly. Recently removed from his post as chief editor. Remains in control of a substantial hoard of unpublished texts...
...Your Life is better developed as a situation than it is as a comedy (though there are some nice bits, like a hotel lobby sign that reads, WELCOME KIWANIS DEAD). But Brooks has always been more of a muser than a tummler, and perhaps more depressive than he is manic. He asks us to banish the cha-cha-cha beat of conventional comedy from mind and bend to a slower rhythm. His pace is not that of a comic standing up at a microphone barking one-liners, but of an intelligent man sitting down by the fire mulling things over...
...trees. A baby's cry can invoke instant rage. Put in nonclinical terms, says psychiatrist Staten, the symptoms of PTSD are "like experiencing one's most threatening nightmares." A recent medical study found that the adrenaline levels of PTSD sufferers remain higher during hospital treatment than those of manic-depressives and paranoid schizophrenics...