Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd was still nervous and trigger-happy, and newcomers were astonished at how many hands would come out of pockets clutching hand grenades when the cry "Panzer" went up, as a T-34 rumbled into a street, or when a few shots hammered through the air from no one knew where...
...which he reveals in this film. Elizabeth Taylor, in the role of Benedict's wife, is at least satisfactory and still very lovely. The performance of the late James Dean as the cowhand-millionaire, while perhaps not his best, does show that he was gaining control over his rather nervous acting style. In all, Giant is a work of considerable technical excellence marred--as are so many films, and not only the products of Hollywood--by a fundamental confusion of purpose...
...confused by the ramblings of dilettantes. Engineer Schafer's visions reveal a woeful lack of appreciation of basic mechanisms of central nervous system activity and can be immediately rejected. The only electrical activity that can control a man's mind arises as a consequence of the functional activity of another...
...brother were Mary and Charles Lamb. Charles was a 21-year-old clerk in the offices of the East India Company-a fragile, stammering youth with a large head on a thin little body, pipestem legs, and a strained look about his eyes. As a result of a nervous breakdown he himself had spent six weeks "very agreeably in a mad house at Hoxton." But confronted with the hard-and-fast alternatives of taking care of Mary or committing her to an institution, Charles never hesitated. Until death parted them, brother and sister lived together like an old devoted married...
Conceits & Quiddities. The strain left deep marks on the character and writings of poor Charles Lamb. He drowned his sorrows in drink, diluted his tragedy with splashes of nervous, tense humor, indulged in "conceits and quiddities" that might grate on some modern sensibilities. His letters make better reading than the essays he wrote under the name of "Elia" (anagram for "A Lie"). This selection by T. S. Matthews, onetime managing editor of TIME, is shrewdly contrived to show why Lamb was not merely pitied for his sufferings but loved as well for his goodness. Indeed, the most remarkable thing about...