Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the cast is equally good. As the effeminate killer, Jean Desailly is babyish and hysterical; Annie Girardot and Lucienne Bogaert as his wife and mother respectively are just demonic enough to explain his mental condition. In his short role as the gigolo, Gerard Sety is amusing and properly nervous in his frank scene that is the comic high point of the film...
...Earl" Long, three-time Louisiana Governor and heir to the political dynasty founded by Brother Huey, last week slid toward oblivion as the reigning force in Louisiana politics. Barred by law from succeeding himself and harried by doctors as he was chased in and out of mental hospitals (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Ole Earl, 64, tried to get himself nominated as next Lieutenant Governor in the free-for-all primary, put a hand-picked successor in as Governor. He cagily passed a bill to change the Democratic primary date from traditional Tuesday to work-free Saturday, thus tried...
John Stuart Mill, in his essay On Liberty, considered eccentricity in a nation's character to be "proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained." Britain has always esteemed such doughty dotties as the 19th century Roman Catholic naturalist, Charles Waterton, who devoted his life to exterminating black rats in England on the ground that they were foreigners smuggled into the country by Hanoverian Protestants. The 1951 Festival of Britain even set aside a section of one pavilion to commemorate oddballs. Britain's contemporary eccentrics manifest more energy than originality, but Britons...
...alumnus claimed that the graffito resembled the doodling of inmates in a mental institution. This charge is, of course, patently unfounded; many attractive designs have been produced by the insane...
Sampson and Bernard A. Merrian '09, agreed that the graffito resembled "the doodling of inmates in a mental hospital." According to Merrian, the mural "belongs in an abnormal psychology clinic...