Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus "an incompetent and unfit driver of golf carts." At last, after careening all over, the cart overturned. Bullets (150 Ibs.) fell on the ground; the Great One (290 Ibs.) and the golf cart (500 Ibs.) fell on Bullets. This resulted in "severe and profound shock to the nervous system" of Bullets and also gave him a broken back. But Bullets is not mad; he is willing to let bygones be gone for only half a million clams...
...Though nervous, few oilmen expect OPEC to recommend nationalization to member governments, though even a hint of that is an effective weapon in the haggling process. More likely, OPEC will simply try to squeeze more money out of the oil companies by imposing taxes on tanker loadings and pipeline shipments...
...only thing impressive about Nobody Loves an Albatross is Preston's acting. The audience knows he's unscrupulous, but loves him anyway. Surrounded by stock characters--a saucy maid, a smart little daughter, a nervous young writer, and a stacked secretary--he keeps Act I from collapsing altogether by the sheer force of his personality. The act is little more than a prolonged series of semi-funny jokes; for example: "Go play with your dolls like I told you--sticking the long pins into Mr. Whitman." Multiply this by 500 and you get an idea of what Preston salvaged...
...MENTAL STRESS is good for the mind, Dr. Gerard added: "Activity of the nervous system improves its capacity for activity, just as exercising a muscle makes it stronger." Is It an Antidote? Some kinds of stress may even be antidotes for the harmful effects of other kinds, and the symposium considered an example in the flesh. Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye, who has made a career of studying stress, appeared on crutches and explained that he had broken his hip by falling out of a maple tree "while following the advice of Dr. White to get more exercise...
...SHAHN: HIS GRAPHIC ART edited by James Thrall Soby. 2 volumes; 286 pages. Braziller. $25. With 96 reproductions of Shahn's paintings and more than a hundred reproductions of his drawings, the disturbing power of Shahn's lonely visions is apparent-in wiry filaments of sparse, nervous lines, in the awkward bulk of bodies out of their element, in chalky faces whose sad eyes peer from sooty sockets. The effect, as in all Shahn's work, is of gritty reality viewed through the distorting lens of a dream...