Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nails, or the martyr thrusting his hand into the flames, has often been explained by medical science on the basis of emotional disturbances (usually hysteria). In other cases, failure to react to pain may be due to severe mental retardation or physical damage to the nervous system. But there remains a baffling group of individuals to whom none of these explanations can be applied, and who show no reaction to pain of virtually any kind...
...dirt, Kazan has his principals--Carroll Baker, as Baby Doll, Karl Malden, as Meighan, and Eli Wallach, as Vacarro--explore the comic sides of their characters. His direction is brilliant and the three performers, who give unanimously superb performances, prove once and for all that Kazan's rather nervous brand of naturalistic acting is quite suitable for comedy. The director's interpretation unquestionably improves the script, even though it makes something new out of Williams' tawdry story...
FEBRUARY. Councillor Vellucci will publish his first volume of poetry, entitled, I,I,I, and Humility. Dean Bundy will deny that he wants to become football coach in an attempt to "bring government to the gridiron." Seven members of the Government and Economics Departments will suffer nervous collapses when the Americans for Democratic Action disbands...
...Fang (Nervous Norvus; Dot). One of those tough patter songs with a science-fiction twist: this cat was born on Mars and he's laying the other planets low. He wears "real nervous pegs with a crazy crease," and he's gonna "hit these chicks with a Martian jolt." Good for a spin...
Speaking in the Vatican palace to the Italian League Against Excessive Noise, Pope Pius XII pleased his listeners by roundly condemning needless decibels. Said His Holiness: "Silence is beneficial not only to sanity, nervous equilibrium and intellectual labor but also helps man to live a life that reaches to the depths and the heights ... It definitely helps an effort toward an interior life, and it is in silence that God's mysterious voice is best heard...