Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schulz's "child's garden of reverses," says Short, false idols are plentiful, and the wages of sin are paid in terms of an "emotional clobbering." Thus Linus' beloved blanket-"only one yard of outing flannel stands between me and a nervous breakdown" -is constantly threatened by the dog Snoopy or the visiting grandmother who disapproves of such habits (and drinks 32 cups of coffee a day). Lucy's love for Schroeder goes unrequited; the heart of the little blond pianist belongs only to Beethoven. Charlie Brown's lowpowered positive thinking-"I actually believe that...
...PUMPKIN EATER. Three husbands, a swarm of progeny and a nervous collapse leave a well-kept wife with an unkempt psyche in this marriage-go-round...
...Nervous about his debut on the Home Service? "Is it likely?" sniffed Winston Churchill, 24. "That hardly runs in the family," considering that his famous grandfather gave the BBC some of its finest hours in World War II. Leaving as little as possible to Mendelian chance, young Churchill started off his daily lunchtime news-and-interviews half hour by asking his first guest, Veteran Pundit Alistair Cooke, "What tips can you give me?" "If you try to be somebody else," cautioned Cooke, "you're lost." So the fledgling commentator skipped politics next day, and interviewed Humorist Malcolm Muggeridge...
...PUMPKIN EATER. Three husbands, a swarm of progeny and a nervous collapse leave a well-kept wife with an unkempt psyche in this marriage-go-round directed by Britain's Jack Clayton (Room at the Top) and played like a house afire by Anne Bancroft...
Where Ponce de Leon failed, the chemists may succeed. What they are doing is enough to give pause to the philosophers and make theologians nervous: some chemists are experimenting with compounds to change the human temperament, making the phlegmatic man more personable, and others are progressing rapidly toward discovery of the chemical bases of life as a prelude to reproducing living organisms in the test tube. Having started out to duplicate the products of raw nature, the chemists have gone nature one better. They are reversing and revising the natural processes, turning out products that have existed nowhere before except...