Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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I have no intention of adding to the extensive verbiage that the book reviewers and drama critics have already piled up about the meaning and the ideas offered in MacLeish's play. I shall only say that I left my front-row seat three or so weeks ago with the...
New Dimension. Ohio-born Dr. May, 49, a fellow of Manhattan's cumbrously named William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, got his Ph.D. from Columbia with a now classic thesis, The Meaning of Anxiety. He followed it with the more popular Man's Search for...
But by the 1930s, May holds, there was not so much of this sex-based anxiety, especially in the U.S., and neurotic anxiety then seemed to stem mainly from repressed hostility. Since World War II, Dr. May contends, there has been another change: most of the anxiety that he sees...
Man in His Entirety. Americans, says May, use perpetual work as a defense against existential anxiety. They cannot face life itself because life as such has lost its meaning. In the U.S. this despondency has been sharply intensified by the realization that a hydrogen-bomb war could wipe out all...
Like the rat in his incantatory verse, Theodore Roethke writes poetry in which the meaning is just beneath the surface, with only the end of its nose showing. Perhaps the best of the U.S. poetic generation that is wedged between the spare witticisms of Wallace Stevens and the distempered howls...