Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel blue, 44½-carat purey from the estate of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, famed capital hostess whose first son was killed by an automobile, whose daughter died from an overdose of sleeping pills, whose husband, onetime Washington Post Owner Edward B. McLean, died in a mental institution. Some previous owners: King Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, English Banker Henry Thomas Hope, and Subaya, favorite of Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid, who murdered...
...Last week these vital questions met these tentative answers: ¶ Marilyn Monroe, shooting her first Hollywood film (MGM's Some Like It Hot) since she left for New York and re-education two years ago, was pregnant and more intellectual than ever. Marilyn stayed coolly sealed inside the mental isolation booth that Manhattan Methodman Lee Strasberg prescribed for "getting into" a part (hers: a uke-playing songbird of the '20s). Marilyn ordered gawkers kicked off the set, banned cussing crewmen, played love scenes with Leading Man Tony Curtis as if enclosed in a cake...
Split Personalities. Lolita's atmosphere of mental illness seems pervasive, and at least three publications developed schizoid tendencies from reading the book. The New York Herald Tribune sprouted two critical heads with contradictory views: in the Sunday book magazine, Gene Baro praised "a notable consistency and artistic force," but in a daily review John K. Hutchens decided that Lolita "is not, I think, a distinguished work." In the New York Times Sunday book section Novelist Elizabeth Janeway praised Lolita at length ("One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year...
...lead editorial to call Lolita an "obscene chronicle of murder and a child's destruction," somberly explained "what obliges us to differ with our own reviewer." It is "the real Lolitas who exist in darkness throughout their lives," ignored by book critics but "known to social workers and mental institutions...
Included in the library are pamphlets on mental health...