Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them legends of the escape of one of the Russian royal family. In 1920 the half-dead body of an unidentified young woman was dragged from a Berlin canal. She claimed in semi-delirium that she was Anastasia. Two years passed before even the girl herself, closeted in a mental hospital, could piece together a coherent story of how, aided by two brothers named Tchaikovsky, she had been carried out of the cellar and across Russia into Rumania. No Tchaikovsky ever showed up to verify the tale, though "Anastasia" claimed to have married one of them. She found many friends...
...longtime friend, who admits "my own low fascination with the show" but adds: "I'm aghast that anyone would have this kind of information in his head. I wouldn't be caught dead with it. I just can't believe it isn't a mental burden."* Others, including faculty members at St. John's itself, point out that Van Doren's mind comes through on TV not as a card-index file but as a reasoning instrument that explores a memory clearly embedded in taste...
...despite the almost presumptuous scope of his remarks, Wilson seldom takes a position lightly. In one of the book's most infuriating passage, he describe pragmatically the superiority of the American bathroom to the Gothic cathedral as a mental stimulus: "But the bathroom, too, shelters the spirit, it tranquillizes and reassures, in surroundings of a celestial Whiteness, where the pipes and the faucets gleam and the mirror makes another liquid surface, which will render you, shaved, rubbed and brushed, a nobler and more winning appearance... It encourages self-dependence and prepares one to face the world, fortified, firm...
Well now, those of us who possess some degree of mental health (excluding those with excessive work compulsions) probably didn't flick out every night of exam period and therefore might well have missedThe Teahouse of the August Moon the first time around. It is worth seeing now and not only for the Japanese music and U.T. prices...
...actors, but not all of them are able to take the necessary countermeasure, which is to seek a new and personal interpretation whenever possible. Very fortunately one of them does; Lisa Rosenfarb, in the role of Blanche DuBois, the once-genteel nymphomaniac who finally ends up in a mental institution after she is raped by her brutish brother-in-law. Miss Rosenfarb dominates the play with a generally skillful exposition of the woman's confusion in the midst of a new world which she is not equipped to understand. Her only difficulty--on the whole a minor...