Word: neurasthenia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thicker than almost anything; his social unit is the family, not the individual. Says his fictional spokesman: "There is something overpowering, even a trifle sinister about very large families, the individual members of which often possess in excess the characteristics commonly attributed to 'only' children: misanthropy: neurasthenia: an inability to adapt themselves . . . The corporate life of large families can be lived with a severity, even barbarity...
...rather than criticisms. Montreal's famed Stressor Hans Selye (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950) flew in to declare his faith that physiological change is related to emotional disturbance. Recent research shows that three classes of hormones can create such varied "psychic" disorders as pathological confusion or excitement, chronic fatigue (neurasthenia), deep depression, psychoses or neuroses during pregnancy, convulsive seizures, paralytic "spells," and even degenerative conditions of the brain and central nervous system...
...woggling and love-me-please pout. He is the military aristocrat to the last shoe button, going a fair piece down Swann's Way with no illusions-an intelligent, very French, clearly self-knowing performance. As the countess, Darrieux nicely achieves an odd mix of innocence, flirtiness, and neurasthenia, but cannot quite hold her own with the competition...
...religious persecution and its fame spread. A weary soldier fighting against Napoleon at Waterloo wrote in his diary: "When I [could] take some nourishment, I felt the most extraordinary desire for a glass of Guinness." Doctors wrote in to say that they found Guinness good for everything from "insomnia, neurasthenia, debility and constipation" to an "effective aid for nursing mothers." Guinness tried to get stout admitted into the U.S. during Prohibition as a medicine, but the Treasury Department coldly said...