Word: neurasthenia
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...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...
These captions of his drawings are lively clues to the imagination of James Thurber. This week The New Yorker's famous comic master of neurasthenia-and its illumination of the so-called normal world-publishes his first picture book in ten years, Men, Women and Dogs (Harcourt, Brace; $3). Thurber has published a dozen books of prose and pictures which have already taken their places among the humorous classics of the U.S. The new book offers Thurber's grateful public 205 pages of devastating deraillery in line and punchline...
Sometimes he admits losing his temper ("We have lost our tempers to the point of neurasthenia. . . ."), sometimes he does it before your eyes: "Do not bother me about leaflets: I am not a machine and cannot work in the present disgraceful situation. . . . For Christ's sake do understand. . . . Unforgivable and shameful . . . simply a disgrace and death to the cause! . . . Yet here you are busy with the devil knows what kind of dirty business! ... If we don't break with the Central Committee and with the Council, then we shall only be worthy of being spat at." When...
...parachuting from a plane (TIME, Oct. 21) last week flooded the Journal of the American Medical Association with an eight-page report on a new disease peculiar to aviators. Doctors dealing with it variously call the condition "staleness, flying sickness, flying stress, aviator's stomach, aviator's neurasthenia, or aeroneurosis." The U. S. Army's Dr. Harry George Armstrong, 37, of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who prepared last week's report prefers aeroneurosis...